Guide hub
These guides explain the questions people usually have before paying a restaurant, delivery, bar, salon, hotel, or group bill. Each guide uses simple U.S. English, short examples, and links back to the right calculator.
Start here
Use the tax guide when your question is about pre-tax or post-tax tipping. Use the automatic gratuity guide when a receipt lists a service or gratuity charge. Use the split-bill guide when several people are paying together.
Better estimates
The guides explain the rule in simple language. The calculators let you enter your own bill amount, tax rate, tip percentage, service charge, and split count.
Use these guides when you are deciding how to calculate a tip.
Use these pages to understand how USTipCalc works and what its limits are.
Use these pages for corrections, contact, privacy, and legal limits.
Guide pages are written for general personal estimates. They do not provide tax, legal, payroll, accounting, or financial advice.
No. USTipCalc guides are for personal bill estimates and general education only. They are not tax, legal, payroll, accounting, or financial advice.
Sales tax can vary by the state, county, city or town, and the exact place where you buy the meal or service. In some areas, transit authorities or special-purpose tax districts also affect the rate. The rate shown on your receipt is the best input for a personal bill estimate.
Read the short answer first, then use the calculator linked on the guide page to test your own bill amount, tax rate, tip amount, and split count.
Useful next steps
Use these related calculators when your receipt includes tax, a service charge, or a group split.
