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Working out a tip and splitting a bill in your head at the table is exactly the kind of quick math that's easy to fumble, especially with an odd tip percentage or an odd number of people. This calculator takes the bill amount, a tip percentage, and how many people are splitting it, and instantly shows the tip amount, the total, and what each person owes.
How it works
Enter the bill amount and the tip percentage you want to leave. If more than one person is splitting the bill, enter how many people — the calculator divides both the tip and the total evenly across everyone.
- Enter the bill amount.
- Enter the tip percentage and how many people are splitting it.
- Read the tip, total and per-person amounts instantly.
Examples
A dinner for one
An $80 bill with a 20% tip comes to $16 in tip and a $96 total.
Splitting a bill four ways
A $100 bill with an 18% tip, split between 4 people, comes to $4.50 in tip and $29.50 total per person.
Who should use it
- Quickly calculating a tip and total at a restaurant.
- Splitting a group bill evenly among several people.
- Checking what a specific tip percentage comes to before deciding how much to leave.
Industry applications
- Restaurants and hospitality
- Personal budgeting
- Group travel and dining
Advantages
- Instantly calculates tip, total, and an even per-person split.
- No account or software installation needed.
- Works with any currency since it's a pure percentage calculation.
Limitations
- Only supports an even split, not itemized splitting by what each person ordered.
- Doesn't know local tipping norms or whether a service charge is already included.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Calculating the tip on the post-tax total instead of the pre-tax subtotal, when local custom expects the latter.
- Rounding each person's share separately in a way that no longer adds up to the actual total.
- Forgetting that an evenly split tip may not match how the group actually wants to divide an itemized bill.
Best practices
- Check your bill for an already-included service charge before adding an additional tip on top.
- Confirm the local tipping norm for the type of service before picking a percentage.
- For itemized splitting (rather than an even split), calculate each person's subtotal separately before applying the tip.
Tips
- If your bill already includes a service charge, check whether you need to tip on top of it before adding another percentage.
- For a large group, agree on the tip percentage before ordering so the final split doesn't cause a debate.