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Tip Calculator

Calculate the tip and total on a restaurant bill, with optional split across a group.

  • tip
  • gratuity
  • split
  • bill
  • restaurant
  • service

About Tip Calculator

Tipping conventions vary wildly by country. In Canada and the United States, 15–20% on the pre-tax amount is the customary range for table service; 10% is closer to the norm in the UK and Australia, and many European countries either build service into the bill or expect a much smaller round-up. The maths is always the same — multiply by the percentage, divide by the headcount — but doing it in your head after dinner has tripped up enough people to keep tip calculators near the top of every utility app for fifteen years running.

This one handles bill amount, tip percentage, and group size in one pass, with quick-pick chips for the most common tip rates. Per-person totals separate the tip portion from the food portion so you know what each person owes if you're collecting cash.

How to use

Enter the bill amount (pre-tax in North America; including service charge in the UK/EU where that's customary). Pick a tip percentage from the chips or type a custom value. Set "Split between" to the number of people sharing the bill — leave it at 1 if you're paying alone.

Each result card shows a value you can click to copy. The currency selector switches between CAD, USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, and NZD; locale-appropriate symbols and grouping are applied automatically. The URL keeps every input so you can bookmark a "standard" tip configuration or share a specific split.

Frequently asked questions

  • Should I tip on the pre-tax or post-tax amount?

    Convention in North America is to tip on the pre-tax subtotal — the food and drink, not the sales tax. Tipping on the total (including tax) is a few percent more generous and some diners do it deliberately for that reason; either is acceptable. In jurisdictions where tax is included in the menu price (most of Europe), the question doesn't arise because the menu price is already the total.

  • What's a typical tip percentage?

    In the US, 18–22% on the pre-tax amount is the modern table-service expectation, with 15% considered the floor. In Canada it's slightly lower at 15–20%. The UK and Australia typically tip 10% or simply round up; many restaurants there add a 10–12.5% optional service charge to the bill automatically. In most of continental Europe and Japan, no tip is expected and rounding up by a euro or two suffices.

  • How does splitting the bill work?

    The calculator divides the total (bill + tip) evenly by the number of people, then shows what fraction of each person's share is tip. If your group wants to split unevenly, do the maths twice — once with the larger group, once with the smaller — and assign the appropriate per-person amount to each.

  • Do I tip on the discounted price or the full price?

    The polite convention is to tip on the full pre-discount amount. Discounts like Groupons, two-for-one offers, or comped items are between you and the restaurant; the server's work is the same whether you paid full price or not. Tipping on the discounted amount means a smaller cheque for the server and is generally considered ungenerous.

  • Why are tip percentages creeping up?

    In the United States, the federal "tipped minimum wage" has been stuck at $2.13/hour for decades, so restaurants effectively rely on customer tips to bring servers to minimum wage. As menu prices rose with inflation but the tipped wage didn't, the expected tip percentage drifted up to compensate. In countries with a single minimum wage that covers tipped workers (Canada, the UK, Australia), the rate has been more stable.

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