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Pension Plan and Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pension (Details 5) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Pension Benefits      
Pension Plan and Postretirement Benefits Other than Pension      
Aggregate liability to participants $ 32,500,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent
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$ 1,700,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent
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Other Postretirement Benefits      
Pension Plan and Postretirement Benefits Other than Pension      
Initial health care cost trend rate (as a percent) 8.04%wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanInitialHealthCareCostTrendRateAssumed
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8.52%wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanInitialHealthCareCostTrendRateAssumed
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9.01%wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanInitialHealthCareCostTrendRateAssumed
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Number of years at which the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate 13 years    
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (as a percent) 4.50%us-gaap_DefinedBenefitPlanUltimateHealthCareCostTrendRate
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Effect of 1% annual increase in assumed health care cost trend rates on the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation 1,200,000us-gaap_DefinedBenefitPlanEffectOfOnePercentagePointIncreaseOnAccumulatedPostretirementBenefitObligation
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Effect of 1% annual increase in assumed health care cost trend rates on the service and interest cost components 168,000us-gaap_DefinedBenefitPlanEffectOfOnePercentagePointIncreaseOnServiceAndInterestCostComponents
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Effect of 1% annual decrease in assumed health care cost trend rates on the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation 1,000us-gaap_DefinedBenefitPlanEffectOfOnePercentagePointDecreaseOnAccumulatedPostretirementBenefitObligation1
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Effect of 1% annual decrease in assumed health care cost trend rates on the service and interest cost components 142,000us-gaap_DefinedBenefitPlanEffectOfOnePercentagePointDecreaseOnServiceAndInterestCostComponents1
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Aggregate liability to participants 9,600,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent
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7,900,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent
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Current portion of postretirement liability 279,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansCurrentLiabilities
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260,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansCurrentLiabilities
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304,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansCurrentLiabilities
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SERP      
Pension Plan and Postretirement Benefits Other than Pension      
Percentage of executive's base salary that is used to credit participants SERP accounts 4.00%wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanPercentageOfEmployeeBaseSalaryUsedForCreditsToParticipantsAccount
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Amount of discretionary awards made to participants 0wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanEmployerDiscretionaryContributionAmount
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0wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanEmployerDiscretionaryContributionAmount
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0wdr_DefinedBenefitPlanEmployerDiscretionaryContributionAmount
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Aggregate liability to participants $ 3,800,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent
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$ 3,800,000us-gaap_PensionAndOtherPostretirementDefinedBenefitPlansLiabilitiesCurrentAndNoncurrent
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