Tip Calculator
Work out the tip and split the bill between any number of people — without doing mental arithmetic at the table.
How it works
A compact workflow from input to download.
Enter your figures
Fill in bill amount, tip % and split between (people). Every value stays in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.
Read the result
The result updates as soon as your inputs are valid, with the headline figure highlighted and the supporting numbers broken out beneath it.
Change the inputs and compare
Adjust any value to see immediately how it moves the result — the quickest way to understand which input the outcome is actually most sensitive to.
Frequently asked questions
How much should I tip?
Should I tip on the pre-tax or post-tax amount?
How does the split work?
Are my numbers sent anywhere?
Tipping is a local convention, not a universal rule
Nothing about tipping is natural or global, and travellers get it wrong in both directions with impressive regularity. In the United States, tipping is structurally load-bearing: federal law permits a tipped minimum wage far below the standard one, so a server's income genuinely depends on gratuities and under-tipping is not a mild social lapse but a real financial harm. In much of continental Europe, service charges are folded into the price and staff are paid a proper wage, so a modest round-up is a courtesy rather than an obligation. In Japan and South Korea, offering a tip can be received as faintly insulting, implying the staff are not adequately paid. The percentage is not the interesting part; knowing which system you are standing in is.
Doing it in your head
A few tricks make this trivial without a phone. Ten percent is the bill with the decimal point moved one place to the left, which anyone can do instantly. Five percent is half of that. So 15 percent is 10 percent plus 5 percent — take a tenth, halve it, add them together. Twenty percent is simply double the ten percent figure. For a bill of 84, that is 8.40 plus 4.20 for 15 percent, or 16.80 for 20 percent. Splitting is then just division. The whole calculation takes about five seconds once the pattern is habitual, which is genuinely useful when the bill arrives and everyone is reaching for their phone.
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