Tip Split Calculator

What does a tip split calculator do?

A tip split calculator divides one restaurant bill among several people: it works out the tip on the whole bill, then gives each person their own food plus a share of the sales tax and the tip in proportion to what they ordered, by agreed shares, or equally.

This one rounds every share to whole cents and assigns the few cents that do not divide, so the shares always add up to the receipt.

At the page defaults four diners ordered $22, $38, $28 and $32 and shared a $12 starter; the receipt shows $10.80 of tax and the table tips 20%. The starter adds $3.00 to each diner's food, the tip is 20% of the $132.00 subtotal, $26.40, and the total is $169.20. Alex pays $32.05, Jordan $52.55, Sam $39.74 and Taylor $44.86.

How do you split a bill evenly with tip?

Add the bill, the tax and the tip and divide by the number of people. A $100 bill with $8 of tax and a 20% pre-tax tip ($20) totals $128.00; split three ways that is $42.666…, which money cannot pay.

The rule here is the one most people use at the table: everyone pays the whole cents ($42.66) and the two cents left over go to the first two diners, so Person 1 and Person 2 pay $42.67 and Person 3 pays $42.66. The page says who pays the extra cent.

An even split works when orders are similar. When one person had a salad and water and another a steak and two cocktails, it makes the light eater pay part of someone else's dinner.

How do you split a bill by what each person ordered?

Give each diner their own items, split any shared dishes equally, and then share the tax and the tip in proportion to each person's food. Sales tax is a percentage of the food, and a tip on the pre-tax bill is too, so a diner who ate 25% of the food pays 25% of each.

In the default example Alex's food is $25.00 of $132.00, so Alex pays $25.00 × 10.80 ÷ 132 = $2.05 of tax (after rounding) and $25.00 × 0.20 = $5.00 of tip.

Exact shares rarely land on whole cents. Here they are $32.045, $52.555, $39.736 and $44.864; rounded down they leave 2¢ unpaid, which go to Alex and Sam, the two with the largest fractions of a cent. The page names them, and the table's columns add up to the receipt line by line: food $132.00, tax $10.80, tip $26.40, total $169.20.

How does splitting by shares work?

When it is not worth entering every item, give each party a number of shares — 2 for a couple, 1 for a single guest, 0.5 for a child — and split the whole bill by those weights. Tax and tip follow the same shares, so every party pays in proportion.

The default share example is a $150 bill with $12 of tax and a 20% tip ($30), $192.00 in all, among a couple (2 shares) and two friends (1 share each). Four shares make $48.00 a share: the couple pays $96.00 and each friend $48.00.

Shares are a convention the group agrees on, not a rule; this page only does the arithmetic once you have chosen them.

What if one person covers the tip, or you round up?

Pick a name under "Who covers the tip?" and that person pays the whole tip on top of their own food and tax; everyone else pays only food and tax. In the default itemised example, if Jordan covers the $26.40 tip, Jordan pays $70.75 and Alex, Sam and Taylor pay $27.05, $33.54 and $37.86.

The Advanced rounding setting can round each person's share up to the next whole dollar, which makes cash easier. Every share goes up by less than a dollar and the difference is added to the tip and shown, so nobody's share is cut to make the rounding work.

What can this tip split calculator not do?

It does not read receipts, keep a running tab or let a group edit the same split: nothing you type leaves your browser and nothing is saved. To keep or send a split, copy the link (the inputs are in the address), print it, or download the CSV.

For costs spread over a trip or a household — several expenses paid by different people — use the expense splitter, which works out who owes whom. Tipping rates are a custom; the tip calculator explains the common ranges and the difference between a tip and a service charge.