1001 - Document - Document and Entity Information
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1003 - Statement - Consolidated Statements of Income
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1004 - Statement - Consolidated Statements of Income (Parenthetical)
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1005 - Statement - Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
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1006 - Statement - Consolidated Balance Sheets
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1007 - Statement - Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)
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1008 - Statement - Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
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1009 - Statement - Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity
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1010 - Disclosure - Introduction and Basis of Presentation
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1011 - Disclosure - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
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1012 - Disclosure - Business Acquisitions
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1013 - Disclosure - Receivables from Brokerage Clients
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1014 - Disclosure - Other Securities Owned
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1015 - Disclosure - Securities Available for Sale and Securities Held to Maturity
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1016 - Disclosure - Loans to Banking Clients and Related Allowance for Loan Losses
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1017 - Disclosure - Equipment, Office Facilities, and Property
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1018 - Disclosure - Intangible Assets and Goodwill
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1019 - Disclosure - Other Assets
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1020 - Disclosure - Deposits from Banking Clients
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1021 - Disclosure - Payables to Brokers, Dealers, and Clearing Organizations
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1022 - Disclosure - Payables to Brokerage Clients
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1023 - Disclosure - Borrowings
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1024 - Disclosure - Commitments and Contingencies
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1025 - Disclosure - Financial Instruments Subject to Off-Balance Sheet Risk, Credit Risk, or Market Risk
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1026 - Disclosure - Fair Values of Assets and Liabilities
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1027 - Disclosure - Stockholders' Equity
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1028 - Disclosure - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
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1029 - Disclosure - Employee Incentive, Retirement, and Deferred Compensation Plans
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1030 - Disclosure - Class Action Litigation and Regulatory Reserve and Money Market Mutual Fund Charges
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1031 - Disclosure - Taxes on Income
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1032 - Disclosure - Earnings Per Common Share
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1033 - Disclosure - Regulatory Requirements
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1034 - Disclosure - Segment Information
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1035 - Disclosure - Subsequent Events
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1036 - Disclosure - The Charles Schwab Corporation - Parent Company Only Financial Statements
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1037 - Disclosure - Quarterly Financial Information (Unaudited)
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1038 - Disclosure - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
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1039 - Disclosure - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
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1040 - Disclosure - Business Acquisitions (Tables)
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1041 - Disclosure - Other Securities Owned (Tables)
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1042 - Disclosure - Securities Available for Sale and Securities Held to Maturity (Tables)
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1043 - Disclosure - Loans to Banking Clients and Related Allowance for Loan Losses (Tables)
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1044 - Disclosure - Equipment, Office Facilities, and Property (Tables)
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1045 - Disclosure - Intangible Assets and Goodwill (Tables)
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1046 - Disclosure - Other Assets (Tables)
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1047 - Disclosure - Deposits from Banking Clients (Tables)
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1048 - Disclosure - Borrowings (Tables)
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1049 - Disclosure - Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)
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1050 - Disclosure - Fair Values of Assets and Liabilities (Tables)
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1051 - Disclosure - Stockholders' Equity (Tables)
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1052 - Disclosure - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Tables)
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1053 - Disclosure - Employee Incentive, Retirement, and Deferred Compensation Plans (Tables)
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1054 - Disclosure - Taxes on Income (Tables)
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1055 - Disclosure - Earnings Per Common Share (Tables)
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1056 - Disclosure - Regulatory Requirements (Tables)
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1057 - Disclosure - Segment Information (Tables)
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1058 - Disclosure - The Charles Schwab Corporation - Parent Company Only Financial Statements (Tables)
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1059 - Disclosure - Quarterly Financial Information (Unaudited) (Tables)
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1060 - Disclosure - Introduction and Basis of Presentation - Additional Information (Detail)
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1061 - Disclosure - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Detail)
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1062 - Disclosure - Business Acquisitions - Additional Information (Detail)
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1063 - Disclosure - Summary of Allocation of Purchase Price to Net Assets of optionsXpress (Detail)
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1064 - Disclosure - Summary of Fair Values of Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed as of Acquisition Date (Detail)
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1065 - Disclosure - Summary of Estimated Fair Value and Useful Lives of Intangible Assets (Detail)
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1066 - Disclosure - Pro Forma Results of Operations (Detail)
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1067 - Disclosure - Receivables from Brokerage Clients - Additional Information (Detail)
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1068 - Disclosure - Summary of Other Securities Owned (Detail)
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1069 - Disclosure - Amortized Cost, Gross Unrealized Gains and Losses, and Fair Value of Securities Available for Sale and Securities Held to Maturity (Detail)
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1070 - Disclosure - Securities with Unrealized Losses, Aggregated by Category and Period of Continuous Unrealized Loss (Detail)
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1071 - Disclosure - Securities with Unrealized Losses, Aggregated by Category and Period of Continuous Unrealized Loss (Parenthetical) (Detail)
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1072 - Disclosure - Securities Available for Sale and Securities Held to Maturity - Additional Information (Detail)
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1073 - Disclosure - Rollforward Amount of Credit Losses Recognized in Earnings for OTTI Securities Held by Company for Portion of Impairment Recognized in Other Comprehensive Income (Detail)
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1074 - Disclosure - Maturities of Securities Available for Sale and Securities Held to Maturity (Detail)
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1075 - Disclosure - Proceeds and Gross Realized Gains (Losses) from Sales of Securities Available for Sale (Detail)
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1076 - Disclosure - Composition of Loans to Banking Clients by Loan Segment (Detail)
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1077 - Disclosure - Changes in Allowance for Loan Losses (Detail)
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1078 - Disclosure - Loans to Banking Clients and Related Allowance for Loan Losses - Additional Information (Detail)
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1079 - Disclosure - Delinquency Aging Analysis by Loan Class (Detail)
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1080 - Disclosure - Credit Quality of Residential Real Estate Mortgages and HELOCs by Reviewing FICO Scores at Origination, Current FICO Scores, Loan-To-Value Ratio (Detail)
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1081 - Disclosure - Equipment, Office Facilities, and Property (Detail)
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1082 - Disclosure - Gross Carrying Value of Intangible Assets and Accumulated Amortization (Detail)
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1083 - Disclosure - Intangible Assets and Goodwill - Additional Information (Detail)
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1084 - Disclosure - Estimated Future Annual Amortization Expense for Intangible Assets (Detail)
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1085 - Disclosure - Changes in Carrying Amount of Goodwill as Allocated to Reportable Segments (Detail)
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1086 - Disclosure - Components of Other Assets (Detail)
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1087 - Disclosure - Deposits from Banking Clients Consisting of Interest Bearing and Noninterest Bearing Deposits (Detail)
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1088 - Disclosure - Payables to Brokers, Dealers, and Clearing Organizations - Additional Information (Detail)
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1089 - Disclosure - Payables to Brokerage Clients - Additional Information (Detail)
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1090 - Disclosure - Long-term Debt Including Unamortized Debt Discounts and Premiums (Detail)
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1091 - Disclosure - Borrowings - Additional Information (Detail)
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1092 - Disclosure - Annual Maturities on Long-term Debt Outstanding (Detail)
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1093 - Disclosure - Future Annual Minimum Rental Commitments, Net of Contractual Subleases (Detail)
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1094 - Disclosure - Commitments and Contingencies - Additional Information (Detail)
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1095 - Disclosure - Purchase Obligations (Detail)
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1096 - Disclosure - Financial Instruments Subject to Off-Balance Sheet Risk, Credit Risk, or Market Risk - Additional Information (Detail)
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1097 - Disclosure - Fair Value Hierarchy for Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value (Detail)
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1098 - Disclosure - Fair Value Hierarchy for Financial Instruments Not Recorded at Fair Value (Detail)
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1099 - Disclosure - Fair Value Estimates for Financial Instruments Excluding Short Term Financial Assets and Liabilities and Financial Instruments Recorded at Fair Value (Detail)
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1100 - Disclosure - Stockholders' Equity - Additional Information (Detail)
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1101 - Disclosure - Preferred Stock Issued and Outstanding (Detail)
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1102 - Disclosure - Components of Other Comprehensive Income (loss) (Detail)
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1103 - Disclosure - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (loss) Balances (Detail)
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1104 - Disclosure - Stock-Based Compensation Expense and Related Income Tax Benefit (Detail)
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1105 - Disclosure - Employee Incentive, Retirement, and Deferred Compensation Plans - Additional Information (Detail)
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1106 - Disclosure - Stock Option Activity (Detail)
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1107 - Disclosure - Information on Stock Options Granted and Exercised (Detail)
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1108 - Disclosure - Assumptions Used to Value Options Granted and Their Expected Lives (Detail)
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1109 - Disclosure - Restricted Stock Units Activity (Detail)
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1110 - Disclosure - Class Action Litigation and Regulatory Reserve and Money Market Mutual Fund Charges - Additional Information (Detail)
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1111 - Disclosure - Income Tax Expense (Detail)
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1112 - Disclosure - Temporary Differences That Created Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities (Detail)
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1113 - Disclosure - Reconciliation of federal statutory income tax rate to effective income tax rate (Detail)
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1114 - Disclosure - Reconciliation of federal statutory income tax rate to effective income tax rate (Parenthetical) (Detail)
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1115 - Disclosure - Reconciliation of Beginning and Ending Amount of Unrecognized Tax Benefits (Detail)
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1116 - Disclosure - Taxes on Income - Additional Information (Detail)
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1117 - Disclosure - EPS under Basic and Diluted Computations (Detail)
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1118 - Disclosure - EPS under Basic and Diluted Computations (Parenthetical) (Detail)
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1119 - Disclosure - Regulatory Capital and Ratios (Detail)
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1120 - Disclosure - Regulatory Requirements - Additional Information (Detail)
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1121 - Disclosure - Net Capital and Net Capital Requirements for Schwab and optionsXpress, Inc (Detail)
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1122 - Disclosure - Segment Information - Additional Information (Detail)
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1123 - Disclosure - Financial Information for Reportable Segments (Detail)
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1124 - Disclosure - Financial Information for Reportable Segments (Parenthetical) (Detail)
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1125 - Disclosure - Condensed Statements of Income (Detail)
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1126 - Disclosure - Condensed Balance Sheets (Detail)
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1127 - Disclosure - Condensed Statements of Cash Flows (Detail)
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1128 - Disclosure - Quarterly Financial Information (Detail)
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1129 - Disclosure - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts (Detail)
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