Free Tip Calculator: Quick Answer
A tip is the bill times the tip rate, and the free tip calculator above does that for you. A total with tip is the bill times (1 + the rate). Pick a rate and the calculator does the rest, including tax, a service charge, rounding and splitting the check.
| Bill | 15% | 18% | 20% | 25% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $50 | $7.50 total $57.50 | $9.00 total $59.00 | $10.00 total $60.00 | $12.50 total $62.50 |
| $80 | $12.00 total $92.00 | $14.40 total $94.40 | $16.00 total $96.00 | $20.00 total $100.00 |
| $120 | $18.00 total $138.00 | $21.60 total $141.60 | $24.00 total $144.00 | $30.00 total $150.00 |
For a typical US sit-down meal, 18% to 20% of the pre-tax bill is the usual range. Use the tabs above for staff tip pools, tip out and a service-by-service guide.
How to Use This Free Tip Calculator
- Enter the bill. Pick your currency first if it is not the one shown. It follows your device language by default.
- Choose the tip. Tap a quality chip (10, 15, 18, 20 or 25%), drag the slider, type any percent, or switch to Tip amount for a flat tip.
- Split it. Use the stepper for an equal split, or choose By what each person ordered and type each person’s items. The calculator divides shared items such as appetisers equally.
- Open Tax, service charge and rounding if the bill has tax, an automatic service charge, or you want to round up.
- Read the result. Total, tip, tip rate, each person’s share, a bar that shows where the money goes, the steps, and a tip chart for your exact bill.
- Share it. Copy summary gives a short text for a group chat, and Copy link reopens the same numbers.
The free tip calculator needs no sign-up and nothing is sent anywhere. Your browser works out the numbers, and the page only remembers your currency and last tip percent on your own device.
How to Calculate a Tip
There are two ways to get the same answer, and the free tip calculator uses the first one so it can show every step.
- Two steps: tip = bill × rate, then total = bill + tip. For $26.50 at 18%, the tip is 26.50 × 0.18 = $4.77 and the total is $31.27.
- One step: total = bill × (1 + rate). Here that is 26.50 × 1.18 = $31.27. This is the one to use on a phone calculator.
The rate is a decimal: 15% is 0.15, 18% is 0.18, 20% is 0.20.
Tip in your head
Move the decimal one place left to get 10%. Double it for 20%. Add half of it for 15%.
| Bill | 10% | 15% (10% + half) | 20% (10% × 2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $120.80 | $12.08 | $18.12 | $24.16 |
| $66.40 | $6.64 | $9.96 | $13.28 |
For 18%, take 20% and subtract a tenth of it: on $66.40, 20% is $13.28 and a tenth of that is $1.33, so about $11.95. If you also want to see where a percentage comes from, the percentage calculator shows each step.
Tip Chart: 15%, 18%, 20% and 25% by Bill Amount
Round bills, four common tip rates, handy if you want the answer without opening the free tip calculator. Amounts are in dollars and rounded to the cent.
| Bill | 15% | 18% | 20% | 25% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | $1.50 | $1.80 | $2.00 | $2.50 |
| $20 | $3.00 | $3.60 | $4.00 | $5.00 |
| $30 | $4.50 | $5.40 | $6.00 | $7.50 |
| $40 | $6.00 | $7.20 | $8.00 | $10.00 |
| $50 | $7.50 | $9.00 | $10.00 | $12.50 |
| $60 | $9.00 | $10.80 | $12.00 | $15.00 |
| $80 | $12.00 | $14.40 | $16.00 | $20.00 |
| $100 | $15.00 | $18.00 | $20.00 | $25.00 |
| $150 | $22.50 | $27.00 | $30.00 | $37.50 |
| $200 | $30.00 | $36.00 | $40.00 | $50.00 |
The free tip calculator builds the same chart for your exact bill, in your currency, and lets you tap a row to apply it.
Tip Before Tax or After Tax?
The tip is usually worked out on the pre-tax amount, because the tax is not something the server provided. Many people tip on the after-tax total instead, and the difference is small. Either is acceptable, so use the one you prefer.
The gap is always the tip rate times the tax rate times the pre-tax bill. At a 20% tip and 8% tax, that is 1.6% of the bill: $0.96 on $60 and $3.20 on $200. Choose Calculate the tip on in the calculator to see both. If the printed total already includes tax, choose Tax is in the bill and enter the rate, and the calculator backs the tax out first.
Tax rates differ by place, so use the rate on your receipt. The tax chip for 8.875% is the combined New York City rate and is only a shortcut.
How to Split a Bill With Tip
For an equal split, the order does not matter. Adding the tip and then dividing gives exactly the same answer as dividing and then adding each person’s tip. The only wrinkle is cents. A $100 bill with an 18% tip is $118, and three people cannot each pay a third of that to the cent: it is $39.33, $39.33 and $39.34. The calculator shows both amounts so the shares add up exactly.
When people ordered different amounts, an equal split is simple but not always fair. Switch to By what each person ordered, enter each person’s items, and put shared plates in the shared box. Tax and tip are then shared in proportion to what each person ordered. Example: one person orders $30, another $50, and $20 of shared plates are split equally. With a 20% tip on the $100 bill, the first pays 120 × (30 + 10) ÷ 100 = $48 and the second pays 120 × (50 + 10) ÷ 100 = $72.
Agree on the tip rate before the card comes out. That is the part that usually causes the awkward moment.
Rounding Up the Tip or the Total
Rounding is handy when you pay cash or want a clean number, but it changes the real tip rate. Rounding an 18% tip up to the next whole dollar adds somewhere between $0 and $1. On a small bill that is a large change, and on a large bill it hardly matters.
| Bill | Total at 18% | Rounded up | Real tip rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $14.30 | $16.87 | $17.00 | 18.9% |
| $27.80 | $32.80 | $33.00 | 18.7% |
| $47.25 | $55.76 | $56.00 | 18.5% |
| $96.10 | $113.40 | $114.00 | 18.6% |
| $190.60 | $224.91 | $225.00 | 18.0% |
The free tip calculator offers four options: total up, total to the nearest unit, each person up, or the tip up. It always tells you the real tip rate afterwards. For currencies without cents, such as the yen, it rounds to whole units automatically.
How Much to Tip by Service
These are common US and Canada ranges. They are rules of thumb, and the How much to tip tab turns any row into a one-tap tip rate.
| Service | Typical tip |
|---|---|
| Sit-down restaurant | 18–20% |
| Bar | 18–20%, or $1–2 a drink |
| Food delivery | 15–20%, with a $3–5 floor |
| Rideshare or taxi | 15–20% |
| Takeout | Optional, up to 10% |
| Haircut or barber | 15–20% |
| Nail salon, manicure, pedicure | 15–20% |
| Massage or spa | 15–20% |
| Tattoo artist | 20–25% |
| Dog groomer | 15–20% |
| Hotel housekeeping | $2–5 per night |
| Bellhop | $1–2 per bag |
For personal services such as hair, nails, massage and tattoos, tip on the full price of everything you had done. For delivery, distance, weather and the size of the order are the usual reasons to go above the minimum. Many people tip delivery drivers in the app before the order arrives, and rideshare apps let you add a tip afterwards.
Tipping in Other Countries
Customs change a lot from one country to the next, and many bills already include a service charge. The By country panel in this free tip calculator covers 30 places. A few of the biggest differences:
| Country | Restaurant custom |
|---|---|
| United States, Canada | 18–20% (Canada 15–20%) |
| United Kingdom | 10–15% if no service charge, often 10–12.5% is already added |
| France, Italy | 5–10%, optional |
| Germany | 5–10%, usually by rounding up |
| Japan, South Korea | Not expected, and may be refused |
| Mexico | 10–15% |
If your bill already has a service charge, open Tax, service charge and rounding, enter its percent, and the calculator counts it as part of your tip. At a 12.5% service charge and a 12.5% target, it correctly says no extra tip is needed.
Tip Pool and Tip Out for Restaurant Staff
Two staff-side tools sit under the Tip pool & tip out tab.
Tip pool by hours
A pool is split in proportion to hours worked (or any points system). With $600 in the pool and 30, 25 and 20 hours worked, each hour is worth $600 ÷ 75 = $8.
| Person | Hours | Share | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ana | 30 | 40% | $240.00 |
| Ben | 25 | 33.3% | $200.00 |
| Cleo | 20 | 26.7% | $160.00 |
Tip out
A server who tips out the bar, bussers and hosts pays each a percentage of sales or of tips. Take $1,800 in sales and $380 in tips, with example rates of 2% of sales to the bar, 1% to bussers and 0.5% to hosts. The tip out is $36 + $18 + $9 = $63, so the server keeps $317. That is 83.4% of the tips, and the tips were 21.1% of sales.
Rules about who may share in a pool differ by country and state. In the United States, federal rules say an employer cannot keep employees’ tips and managers cannot take part in a pool; see the Department of Labor’s fact sheet on ownership of tips and its page on minimum wages for tipped employees. This calculator does arithmetic and is not payroll or legal advice.
Tip Calculator on a Phone, Google, Excel, Python and JavaScript
You do not need an app for this. On any phone calculator, type the bill and multiply by 1.18 for an 18% tip (1.2 for 20%). Searching a tip calculator in a browser gives a small box, and this page works the same way on iPhone, Android and desktop, with nothing to download.
In a spreadsheet, put the bill in A2 and the rate in B2:
=A2*B2 tip =A2*(1+B2) total =A2*(1+B2)/C2 each person (C2 = people) =ROUNDUP(A2*(1+B2),0) total up to whole dollars
If you are learning to code, a tip calculator is a good first project, though you can also just use the free tip calculator above. A JavaScript version:
function tip(bill, pct, people = 1) {
const tipAmt = bill * pct / 100;
const total = bill + tipAmt;
return { tip: +tipAmt.toFixed(2),
total: +total.toFixed(2),
each: +(total / people).toFixed(2) };
}
tip(82.40, 20, 2); // { tip: 16.48, total: 98.88, each: 49.44 }And in Python:
def tip(bill, pct, people=1):
t = round(bill * pct / 100, 2)
total = round(bill + t, 2)
return t, total, round(total / people, 2)
print(tip(82.40, 20, 2)) # (16.48, 98.88, 49.44)For money in real apps, work in whole cents instead of floating-point numbers, so splits add up exactly, as this calculator does.
Our Take: What Is Overrated, Underrated and Plain Wrong
These are opinions, not rules.
Overrated: the preset buttons on a card reader. A screen that offers 20, 25 and 30% on the total after tax makes the highest number look normal. You can always choose your own.
Underrated: deciding the rate before the bill arrives, and tipping on the pre-tax amount. Both take five seconds and remove most of the arguments.
Plain wrong: “15% is the standard.” That was a common figure for years, but table service now usually means 18–20%. Also wrong: assuming an equal split is always fair when one person ordered far more.
Tip Practice Problems With Answers
- The bill is $64 and you leave 20%. What is the total?
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Tip $12.80, total $76.80 - A $120 dinner for 4 with an 18% tip. What does each person pay?
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$141.60 ÷ 4 = $35.40 - The bill is $56 plus 8% tax. What is a 20% tip on the pre-tax amount?
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$11.20 - You leave a flat $10 on a $50 bill. What is the tip rate?
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20% - A $68.50 bill already has a 12.5% service charge. You want a 15% tip overall on the amount before the charge. How much extra do you add?
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Before the charge: 68.50 ÷ 1.125 = $60.89. 15% is $9.13, the charge is $7.61, so add about $1.52.