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EBP, Employer Contribution Maximum Vesting Age

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EBP, Employer Contribution Vesting Service Period

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EBP, Investment Increments

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EBP, Investment, Plan Interest in Master Trust, Cost Basis

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EBP, Note Receivable From Participant, Account, Primary Residence, Maximum Borrowing Term

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EBP, Note Receivable From Participant, Other Loans, Maximum Borrowing Term

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EBP, Participant Contribution, Automatic, Annual Increase Deferral Rate

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EBP, Participant Contribution, Maximum Annual Compensation To Total Compensation, Percentage

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EBP, Participant Contribution, Maximum Annual Compensation To Total Compensation, Percentage Increment Allowed

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EBP, Participant Loan, Basis Spread On Variable Rate

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EBP, Retirement Age

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EBP, Self Direct Brokerage Account, Investment Limit

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Amount of increase in net asset available for benefit from dividend income on investment held by employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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-Topic 962
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of employer matching contribution on eligible participant contribution to employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Percentage of participant compensation eligible for employer matching contribution for participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of plan asset, in forfeited nonvested account, no longer allocated to participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of decrease in forfeited nonvested account of employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) from employer contribution.

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Number of shares or units of investment held by employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of maximum account balance that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow.

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Percentage of maximum account balance that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow to total participant account balance.

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Amount of minimum account balance that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow.

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Percentage of eligible compensation contributed for participant automatically enrolled in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Interest rate on participant loan in schedule of asset held for investment of employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
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