Tip Calculator
Calculate tips and split bills instantly. Choose your currency, add an optional service charge, and share the per-person breakdown.
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What Is a Tip Calculator?
Tipping convention is culturally specific and varies more than any other restaurant ritual. US: 18-20% standard at sit-down restaurants is wage-replacement — federal tipped minimum is $2.13/hour and tips bridge to the standard $7.25 floor (some states fully merge). Japan: tipping is rude — staff will chase you down the street to return forgotten cash. France / Italy / Spain: service compris is built into the bill (typically 10-15%), small change rounding (1-2 EUR) is appreciated. UK / Australia: ~10% sit-down, often via 'optional service charge' line that you can have removed. South Korea: no tip culture; rounding-up only. Mexico: 10-15% expected, often given in pesos cash even on card payments. Tax-inclusive vs tax-exclusive: US restaurants display pre-tax prices, so tipping 20% on the printed bill total tips on tax (a 7-9% extra spend you may or may not intend); EU displays tax-inclusive, so the printed total is what you tip on. The calculator handles both: pick your tipping base (subtotal vs total) and your country's default tip percentage.
How to Use the Tip Calculator
Enter the bill total. Pick your country preset (US, UK, FR, JP, MX, CA, AU, KR, DE, IT, ES, BR, CN, HK) — the tip percentage and tax-base preference auto-fill but stay editable. Set the number of diners for an even split. The calculator outputs: tip amount, total per person, and a rounded variant (round up each per-person figure to the nearest dollar / nearest 100 JPY / nearest 5 HKD coin so nobody fumbles for coins). The uneven split mode lets you mark who ate what — useful when one person had the prix-fixe and three had appetizers; per-person totals weight by their share of the subtotal plus the same tip rate. Service charge already on bill: there is a toggle for that — if the bill already includes a 10-15% service charge (service compris in France, gratuity included in US group-of-6+ restaurants), the calculator zeros out additional tipping unless you want to add on top.
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Tipping mistakes are usually directional, not arithmetic. The US over-tip when calculating on the tax-inclusive total (paying 20% x $43.40 = $8.68 rather than 20% x $40.00 = $8.00 when sales tax is 8.5%) — small per-meal but compounds. Travelers who tip in Japan or Korea risk insulting waiters; travelers who do not tip in the US under-pay the staff who depend on it. For group dining, asymmetric eaters get over-charged in a flat split — if one person had a $30 entree and another had a $12 salad, splitting a $50 bill 50/50 is a $19 transfer from the salad-eater. The calculator's per-item attribution makes the math fair without arguments. Tax-inclusive vs exclusive: EU bills show the full price you pay including 19-25% VAT, so tipping on the total tips on tax (intentional); US bills exclude sales tax, so tipping on the total adds 5-9% of bonus tip vs. tipping on subtotal.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the service charge field work?
Enter a service charge % only when you want the calculator to add it on top of the bill before tip and splitting.
Is tip calculated before or after service charge?
If you enter a service charge, it is added first. The tip % is then calculated on the new total.
How is the per-person amount calculated?
Total (bill + optional service charge + tip) ÷ number of people, rounded to 2 decimal places.
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