TIP // CALC
A printable quick-reference tip table covering the most common bill amounts from $10 to $500 at every standard percentage: 15%, 18%, 20%, 22%, and 25%. Use the live calculator above for any exact amount.
The complete quick-reference table below covers 27 common restaurant bill increments from $10 up to $500, cross-referenced against the five most widely used tipping percentages. Every cell shows the exact tip amount, not the combined total — to get the total you owe, add the tip amount in the cell to the bill amount in the first column. All figures are calculated on the pre-tax subtotal; if you want to include sales tax in the tipping base, either add the tax to the bill amount before looking up the row, or use the live calculator with the tax field and post-tax toggle.
| Bill | 15% Tip | 18% Tip | 20% Tip | 22% Tip | 25% Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10.00 | $1.50 | $1.80 | $2.00 | $2.20 | $2.50 |
| $15.00 | $2.25 | $2.70 | $3.00 | $3.30 | $3.75 |
| $20.00 | $3.00 | $3.60 | $4.00 | $4.40 | $5.00 |
| $25.00 | $3.75 | $4.50 | $5.00 | $5.50 | $6.25 |
| $30.00 | $4.50 | $5.40 | $6.00 | $6.60 | $7.50 |
| $35.00 | $5.25 | $6.30 | $7.00 | $7.70 | $8.75 |
| $40.00 | $6.00 | $7.20 | $8.00 | $8.80 | $10.00 |
| $45.00 | $6.75 | $8.10 | $9.00 | $9.90 | $11.25 |
| $50.00 | $7.50 | $9.00 | $10.00 | $11.00 | $12.50 |
| $60.00 | $9.00 | $10.80 | $12.00 | $13.20 | $15.00 |
| $70.00 | $10.50 | $12.60 | $14.00 | $15.40 | $17.50 |
| $75.00 | $11.25 | $13.50 | $15.00 | $16.50 | $18.75 |
| $80.00 | $12.00 | $14.40 | $16.00 | $17.60 | $20.00 |
| $90.00 | $13.50 | $16.20 | $18.00 | $19.80 | $22.50 |
| $100.00 | $15.00 | $18.00 | $20.00 | $22.00 | $25.00 |
| $120.00 | $18.00 | $21.60 | $24.00 | $26.40 | $30.00 |
| $130.00 | $19.50 | $23.40 | $26.00 | $28.60 | $32.50 |
| $150.00 | $22.50 | $27.00 | $30.00 | $33.00 | $37.50 |
| $175.00 | $26.25 | $31.50 | $35.00 | $38.50 | $43.75 |
| $200.00 | $30.00 | $36.00 | $40.00 | $44.00 | $50.00 |
| $225.00 | $33.75 | $40.50 | $45.00 | $49.50 | $56.25 |
| $250.00 | $37.50 | $45.00 | $50.00 | $55.00 | $62.50 |
| $300.00 | $45.00 | $54.00 | $60.00 | $66.00 | $75.00 |
| $350.00 | $52.50 | $63.00 | $70.00 | $77.00 | $87.50 |
| $400.00 | $60.00 | $72.00 | $80.00 | $88.00 | $100.00 |
| $450.00 | $67.50 | $81.00 | $90.00 | $99.00 | $112.50 |
| $500.00 | $75.00 | $90.00 | $100.00 | $110.00 | $125.00 |
Using the chart is straightforward once you understand the structure, but walking through the process explicitly avoids the common mistakes people make when referencing a printed table on the fly. Step one: locate your bill amount in the far-left \"Bill\" column. This should be the pre-tax subtotal printed on your check — the line item before sales tax, service fees, or any prior auto-gratuity are added. If you only have the post-tax total and do not want to reverse-engineer the subtotal, just add the tax into the number you look up; the difference is typically a dollar or less, which is negligible for tipping purposes on all but the very largest checks.
Step two: slide horizontally across that row to the column corresponding to the tip percentage you want to use — 15%, 18%, 20%, 22%, or 25%. The number in the intersecting cell is the exact tip amount you should leave, calculated to the penny with no rounding. If you want to round up to the nearest dollar or a cleaner number for a cash payment, bump the tip up by however many cents are needed to reach the next whole dollar — for example, if the chart says $12.60, round to $13.00 for simplicity. The server gets the extra 40 cents, and you avoid fumbling with change.
Step three: add the tip amount to your original bill amount to get the combined total owed. So if your bill is $70 and you decided on 18%, the chart gives you a $12.60 tip, and the total is $70.00 + $12.60 = $82.60. If you are splitting the check with others, divide the $82.60 total by the number of people, or alternatively divide the $12.60 tip separately and add each person's share to their share of the base bill — both methods produce the same final number per person. If you want to split unevenly (for example, one person is covering the drinks), use the individual bill shares as the lookup number rather than the whole-table total.
The main chart above is designed to be printed as a full-page reference sheet you can keep in your wallet, glove compartment, or desk drawer. For a standard US Letter (8.5 × 11 inch) or A4 page, use the browser's print dialog (Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux, Cmd+P on Mac) and set the margins to \"Default\" or \"Narrow\" — the table fits cleanly on a single side with all 27 rows and all five percentage columns visible. If your printer automatically adds headers or footers with the page URL or date, disable them in the print options to give the table maximum vertical space. Most modern mobile browsers also support printing directly to a PDF file if you want a digital copy with no paper waste.
For a pocket-sized version you can keep in a phone case or wallet behind a credit card, take a screenshot of just the $10 through $150 rows (the 16 most useful increments for everyday dining) and crop it to the table boundaries. Save the image to your phone's favorites album so it is one tap away even when you have no cell service. If you want a real physical card, print the full chart at roughly 50% scale on thick cardstock, trim the edges with scissors, and laminate it or cover it with packing tape for water resistance. The result is roughly credit-card sized and contains 95% of the numbers you will ever need for a real meal.
Or use the live calculator at the top of this page for any custom amount.
Three rows on the chart account for the majority of real-world restaurant checks in the United States: the $50 row, the $100 row, and the $200 row. These three amounts cover the three most common dining scenarios — a casual individual or two-person lunch, a standard two-person dinner with drinks, and a group dinner or more upscale experience for two to four people — and memorizing just these three rows plus the pattern between them gives you a reliable mental estimate for any nearby amount on the chart.
| Bill | 15% Tip | 18% Tip | 20% Tip | 22% Tip | 25% Tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $50.00 | $7.50 | $9.00 | $10.00 | $11.00 | $12.50 |
| $100.00 | $15.00 | $18.00 | $20.00 | $22.00 | $25.00 |
| $200.00 | $30.00 | $36.00 | $40.00 | $44.00 | $50.00 |
The $50 row is the sweet spot for individual or two-person casual lunches: one entrée, a drink, maybe an appetizer or side. It is the most common check size at casual chains, sandwich shops, midrange pizzerias, and brunch spots outside major downtown areas. The $100 row is the classic two-person dinner baseline with a shared appetizer, two mains, a bottle of wine or two cocktails, and a dessert. The $200 row covers a group of four at a midscale restaurant, a couple at a nicer date-night spot with a full wine pairing, or a family dinner with kids and multiple courses. Because tips are linear, any nearby amount scales proportionally: $150 is exactly halfway between $100 and $200, so every tip amount in the $150 row is exactly the average of the $100 and $200 rows.
The printed tip chart and the live tip percentage calculator are complementary tools, each optimized for a different situation. The chart is for quick lookup of fixed, common numbers when you already know your bill falls into one of the standard increments on the left column and you just want the answer fast, ideally offline with no phone service or app required. The calculator is for real-time calculation of any exact bill and handles all the features the chart cannot: arbitrary bill amounts down to the penny, optional sales tax with a toggle between pre-tax and post-tax tipping bases, splitting between any number of people, rounding the total up to the next whole dollar, and generating a shareable receipt image you can send to a group chat.
Concretely: if you are at dinner, the check is exactly $64.37 after tax, there are four people splitting, and you want to tip 20% on the pre-tax subtotal with the final per-person total rounded up to a clean number — you want the calculator, because doing that by hand from the chart would require five separate manual steps. If you are at the same restaurant, the check is exactly $100.00 pre-tax, you are paying alone, and you already know you want 18% — the chart row gives you the answer ($18.00) in a quarter of a second with no typing. Use whichever tool fits the moment, and jump between them as needed using the tip percentage calculator link or the live calculator at the top of this page.
For the most frequently used specific rates and bill amounts, use a pre-configured dedicated calculator instead of manually selecting your defaults every time:
20% Tip Calculator — Locked at 20% for generous service →
18% Tip Calculator — Modern standard default →
25% Tip Calculator — Locked at 25% for exceptional service →
15% Tip Calculator — Historical baseline for casual service →
$50 Tip Calculator — Common check amount →
$100 Tip Calculator — Standard two-person dinner →
$200 Tip Calculator — Large dinner & group check →
Large Group Tip Calculator — 6-20 people group check →
Yes — this entire page is designed to print cleanly from any standard desktop or mobile browser. On desktop, press Ctrl+P (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+P (Mac) to open the print dialog, then select "Save as PDF" or send it directly to a printer. The page layout is responsive and print-friendly, meaning the tables will wrap or scale to fit standard letter or A4 paper without cutting off columns. If you only need a pocket-sized version, you can also screenshot the chart section, crop it to just the table rows, and save it to your phone's camera roll for quick offline reference. The live calculator at the top of the page will not print in a useful way (it requires JavaScript), so focus on the reference tables below when printing.
Across all bill sizes on the chart, 18% and 20% are the two most commonly used tipping percentages in 2026, with 20% pulling slightly ahead in major metro areas and 18% remaining the median nationally. Industry data from point-of-sale receipt screens consistently shows the 18%, 20%, and 22% buttons as the most frequently tapped trio, with 15% as the historical floor that people occasionally fall back to for casual service and 25% as the generous tier for exceptional work. If you only memorize one column of the chart, make it the 20% column — it is the safest default that never reads as wrong in any US dining context.
This chart assumes you are tipping on the pre-tax subtotal, which is the convention recommended by most modern etiquette guides and the default mode in the live calculator at the top of this page. If your personal norm is to tip on the post-tax total, or if you live in a state where it is customary to do so, you have two options: one, calculate the pre-tax tip using the chart and then mentally add a small fraction of the tax amount to the tip (roughly the tip percentage times the tax); or two, add the tax to your bill first, round up to the nearest increment on the chart, and look up the combined number. The difference between the two methods is usually under a dollar on most typical bill sizes, so either approach is fine.
The dollar amounts on the chart are specific to US prices, but the percentage columns themselves are transferable to any country that uses percentage-based tipping — you can mentally substitute euros, Canadian dollars, British pounds, or Australian dollars for the "$" sign and the math works exactly the same. That said, tipping norms vary enormously by country, so the 15–25% range covered by this chart is heavily calibrated to the US and Canada. In most of Europe, 5–10% or rounding the bill is the norm; in Japan and Korea, tipping is often considered rude; in Mexico, 10–15% is standard. Do your research before traveling rather than assuming 18% translates to every country.
If your exact bill is not one of the 27 increments on the chart, you have three easy options. First, round to the nearest row on the chart — for a $64.00 bill, use the $60 or $70 row and adjust slightly up or down by a dollar or two. Second, use proportional scaling: $46 is roughly halfway between $40 and $50 on the chart, so split the difference between those two rows' tip amounts. Third, just use the live calculator at the top of the page, which handles any exact bill down to the penny and can add tax, split the check, and round the total for you automatically. The chart is for quick reference on the go; the calculator is for exact precise numbers when you need them.
More calculators for specific percentages, bill amounts, and scenarios: