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Employee Benefits
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
Employee Benefits And Other Expenses Disclosure [Abstract]  
Employee Benefits and Other Expenses

We sponsor a noncontributory qualified defined benefit retirement plan, the Wells Fargo & Company Cash Balance Plan (Cash Balance Plan), which covers eligible employees of Wells Fargo; the benefits earned under the Cash Balance Plan were frozen effective July 1, 2009.

       The net periodic benefit cost was:

 

             
             
       2012  2011
      Pension benefits  Pension benefits 
       Non-Other  Non-Other
(in millions)Qualifiedqualifiedbenefits Qualifiedqualifiedbenefits
Quarter ended March 31,    
Service cost $ - - 3  1 - 3
Interest cost   128 8 15  130 9 18
Expected return on plan assets  (162) - (9)  (189) - (10)
Amortization of net actuarial loss  33 3 -  21 2 -
Amortization of prior service credit  - - (1)  - - (1)
Settlement  1 - -  2 - -
 Net periodic benefit cost (income)$ - 11 8  (35) 11 10