Tip Calculators
Free tools for working out a tip, splitting a bill across a group, and figuring gratuity alongside sales tax — for restaurants, bars, salons, and delivery orders. No sign-up required.
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Which tip calculator do you need?
All six tools in this category run on the same arithmetic and the same published ranges — pick the one shaped like your situation. The last row routes out of the category.
- I'm settling a restaurant or bar bill and need the tip
- Tip Calculator — presets from the published range, plus sales tax, round-ups and a reverse mode
- I want to know what percentage to tip, before I have a bill
- Tip Percentage Calculator — pick a rate and see what it means in dollars, plus a $5–$200 tip chart
- We're sharing the bill and everyone owes a different amount
- Bill Split Calculator — splits evenly, by item or by income, and works out who owes whom
- I'm paying at a salon, barbershop or nail salon
- Haircut & Salon Tip Calculator — service presets, and divides one tip between everyone who worked on you
- I'm tipping for a delivery, or picking up takeout myself
- Food Delivery Tip Calculator — keeps the delivery fee out of the tip, and applies the published per-order minimum
- I want to know whether to tip before or after sales tax
- Tip and Sales Tax Calculator — runs both calculations at once and prices the difference between them
- I just want to round a number — no tip involved
- Rounding Calculator — rounds any figure up or down without putting a tip on it
Available Tools
6 Calculators AvailableTip Calculator
Work out the tip on any bill, add sales tax, round the total up, or work backwards from a total you already paid.
Haircut & Salon Tip Calculator
Work out the tip for a haircut, colour, barber visit, manicure or pedicure, and split one tip between a stylist and an assistant.
Bill Split Calculator
Split a bill evenly, by what each person ordered, or in proportion to income, and work out who owes whom.
Tip Percentage Calculator
Pick a tip percentage and see what it means in dollars, check it against the published US tipping range, and scan a $5–$200 tip chart at 10%, 15%, 18%, 20% and 25%.
Food Delivery Tip Calculator
Work out the tip for a food, pizza or grocery delivery — kept separate from the delivery fee — with the published per-order minimum, plus takeout and pickup guidance.
Tip and Sales Tax Calculator
Compare tipping on the pre-tax subtotal against tipping on the tax-inclusive total, see the difference in dollars, and check how an automatic gratuity interacts with sales tax.
What this category covers
Everything here is the customer's side of a US bill: deciding what to leave, and dividing what was spent. The ranges quoted across the category are published US etiquette guidance — not law, and not survey data — and where a source gives a single figure or a dollar floor instead of a range, that is what is shown.
What is not covered: the worker's side of tipping — tipped minimum wages, tip credits, and how tips are taxed — beyond the federal definitions the pages cite; sales-tax rates, which are set state by state and are never looked up for you; and service-included conventions outside the United States. When a figure needs plain rounding rather than a tip, the rounding calculator is the simpler tool.
How these calculations work
Every tool here runs the same core multiplication — the bill times the tip rate — and treats everything else as arithmetic layered on top. Sales tax is a second percentage of the same bill, added alongside the tip rather than compounded with it. Tipping on the tax-inclusive total instead is a choice the calculators expose, and when you take it they report what it did to the tip as a share of the pre-tax bill — one figure, computed one way everywhere, so it can be held against a published range.
The money is handled in whole cents. When a total will not divide evenly, the spare cents are handed out one per person rather than rounded away, so the shares always add back up to the exact total. Rounding up is applied to the tip alone, because the bill and the tax are fixed by the venue and the state — adding to the tip is the only lever a customer actually has.
The ranges themselves live in one shared module, quoted from a published etiquette source, so no two pages in this category can state different figures for the same service.
Published US tipping ranges by service
This table answers one question — what percentage for what kind of service — across every context the category has a sourced range for. The other axis, what a percentage comes to in dollars on a given bill, belongs inside the calculators, which chart the amounts around whatever bill you enter. Where the source gives a floor or a per-drink amount too, the row says so.
| Service context | Published range | What the source says |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant table service | 15%–20% | 15% is a minimum even when service disappoints, not a typical figure |
| Bar & bartender | 15%–20% of the tab, or $1.00–$2.00 per drink | Two modes: a flat amount per drink for a simple pour, or a percentage for an open tab |
| Counter service & takeout | 0%–10% | Discretionary — change or a dollar or two; the upper margin is for large orders |
| Food delivery | 10%, or $5.00 or more per order | On a small order the dollar floor, not the percentage, is the operative number |
| Hair salon & barber | 15%–20% | One sentence covers all personal care; no separate published figure for colour, a blow-dry or a barber |
| Nail salon | 15%–20% | The same sentence as hair — the question is asked separately; the figure does not differ |
How these tools fit together
Working out the tip: start here for a single bill or to check a rate against the published range. Tipping by service: the same arithmetic with presets for personal care and delivery, plus per-role and per-order details neither of the first two tools carries. Splitting the bill: for once one tip isn't the whole job — dividing a bill among people, or settling which total the tip is a percentage of.
Working out the tip2 tools
Tipping by service2 tools
Splitting the bill2 tools
Common mistakes when tipping and splitting
- Reading the bottom of a range as the standard. The source frames 15% as a minimum you leave even when service disappoints; its wording for standard service is that many people regularly tip between 15% and 20%.
- Carrying one setting's number to another. Delivery has a dollar floor that outweighs the percentage on small orders, counter service is genuinely discretionary, and a bar accepts a flat per-drink amount — each row in the table above is its own convention, not a variation on the restaurant one.
- Tipping again on top of an automatic gratuity. A charge the venue added for a large party is already on the bill and was set by the venue, not by you. Check the bill before choosing a rate.
- Letting a round-up move the tip invisibly. Rounding every share up happens once per person and can add several dollars across a table. The calculators report the tip rate you actually left, so the cost of a tidy number stays visible.
- Treating a card terminal's suggestion as a norm. A pre-filled percentage is a software default, not etiquette guidance — check what it was computed on before accepting it.
Tip calculator FAQs
How much should you tip?+
It depends on the service. The Emily Post Institute puts US restaurant table service at 15%–20%, hair, nails and other personal care at 15%–20%, and food delivery around 10% or $5.00 or more per order, and treats counter-service tipping as discretionary. Each calculator here reads the published range for its own setting.
Which tip calculator should I use?+
Use the tip calculator for a single restaurant or bar bill, with or without sales tax. Use the tip percentage calculator to check a rate, or see what it means in dollars, before you have a bill in hand. Use the bill split calculator when several people are sharing — evenly, by what each person ordered, or by income. Use the haircut and salon tip calculator for personal-care services, and for dividing one tip between two or three staff. Use the food delivery tip calculator for a delivery, pizza order or takeout, which keeps a delivery fee separate from the tip and applies the published per-order minimum.
Is tipping required by law in the United States?+
No. Federal regulation defines a tip as a sum presented by a customer as a gift or gratuity, with whether one is given, and its amount, determined solely by the customer. The exception on a bill is an automatic service charge: the venue sets it, and federal regulation treats it as a service charge rather than a tip.
Do you tip for takeout or counter service?+
It is discretionary — the published guidance describes adding your change or a dollar or two to the jar, and suggests a margin of up to 10% only for a large or complex order. For delivery the same source is firmer: around 10%, or $5.00 or more per order.
Why do all the calculators here show the same tipping ranges?+
Because every page reads its ranges from one shared module, quoted from a published etiquette source, rather than carrying its own copy. Where the source states one range covering several services — as it does for personal care — every page shows that one range, rather than inventing service-by-service figures the source never published.
Do these calculators work outside the United States?+
The arithmetic works anywhere — a percentage of a bill, a split that reconciles to the cent. The ranges do not travel: they are quoted from a US etiquette publisher describing US practice, and many countries include service in the price or tip far less. Outside the US, enter the local convention as your rate and ignore the presets.
Related categories
- General Calculators (4) — where the rounding calculator lives — every tool here rounds a bill by adding to the tip, and when what you actually want is a plain round number with no tip attached, that is the tool for it
Estimates & assumptions
- Tipping norms are customary, not legal requirements. Every range in this category is quoted from a published etiquette source, and practice varies by region, venue, and service.
- No source consulted states whether its percentages apply before or after sales tax, so no page here claims one. The calculators let you choose, and report the tip against the pre-tax bill either way.
- Sales tax is applied at whatever rate you enter. This site holds no state tax-rate tables and never looks a rate up for you.
- These are US conventions from a US publisher. Service-included billing elsewhere is different and is not modelled here.
- Bill splits and income-weighted shares compute the convention you choose; none of them is a ruling on what is fair.
These calculators produce estimates for planning only. They are not financial, tax, or legal advice.