Employee Share-Based Incentives (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Share-based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]

Summary of RSUs, PSUs, and SARs and stock options activity

The following table summarizes JPMorgan Chase’s RSUs, PSUs, SARs and stock options activity for 2020.

	RSUs/PSUs			SARs/Options
Year ended December 31, 2020	Number of units	Weighted-average grant date fair value		Number of awards	Weighted-average exercise price		Weighted-average remaining contractual life (in years)	Aggregate intrinsic value
(in thousands, except weighted-average data, and where otherwise stated)
Outstanding, January 1	52,239	$	99.62	5,527	$	41.36
Granted	17,891	132.17		1	137.80
Exercised or vested	(21,502)	96.64		(2,389)	41.40
Forfeited	(1,118)	111.59		(4)	122.59
Canceled	NA	NA		(11)	39.33
Outstanding, December 31	47,510	$	112.85	3,124	$	41.25	1.4	$	265,059
Exercisable, December 31	NA	NA		3,124	41.25		1.4	265,059

Noncash compensation expense related to employee share-based incentive plans

The Firm recognized the following noncash compensation expense related to its various employee share-based incentive plans in its Consolidated statements of income.

Year ended December 31, (in millions)	2020		2019		2018
Cost of prior grants of RSUs, PSUs, SARs and stock options that are amortized over their applicable vesting periods	$	1,101	$	1,141	$	1,241
Accrual of estimated costs of share-based awards to be granted in future periods including those to full-career eligible employees	1,350		1,115		1,081
Total noncash compensation expense related to employee share-based incentive plans	$	2,451	$	2,256	$	2,322