---
title: "Tip calculator — free, runs in your browser"
description: "Work out a tip and split the bill, with the per-person figure rounded sensibly. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your browser."
url: https://atoneplace.net/tools/tip-calculator/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Tip calculator

Work out a tip and split the bill, with the per-person figure rounded sensibly.

## How it works

Enter the bill, choose a tip percentage, and split it between however many people are paying. The per-person total is what most people actually came for.

Whether to tip on the pre-tax or post-tax total is a genuine disagreement rather than a rule. Tipping on the pre-tax amount is the more common convention in the United States and is what this calculator does by default; tipping on the total is more generous by roughly the tax rate times the tip rate, which on a $100 bill at 8% tax and 20% tip is about $1.60.

Tipping customs vary enormously by country. In much of Europe and Asia a service charge is already included and additional tipping is optional or unusual; in the United States restaurant staff are frequently paid a sub-minimum wage on the assumption that tips make up the difference.

> This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, logged or stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.

## Common questions

### How much should you tip?

In United States restaurants, 15–20% of the pre-tax bill is standard, with 20% common for ordinary service. Elsewhere it varies widely and is often already included as a service charge.

### Do you tip on the total before or after tax?

Convention in the US is to tip on the pre-tax subtotal. Tipping on the post-tax total is more generous by roughly the tax rate multiplied by the tip rate — a small amount on most bills.

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