Split Bill Calculator
Split a bill evenly between any number of people with tip included, or give one person a bigger or smaller share — see exactly what each person owes.
Split Bill Calculator: with the default inputs, each person pays is $55.02.
The amount on the check, before tip.
Set to 0 if the tip is already included.
- Total with tip
- $220.07
- Tip
- $33.57
- The bigger/smaller share pays
- $55.02
- Everyone else pays
- $55.02
- Tip per person
- $8.39
Assumptions
- Tip is a percentage of the whole bill, shared in proportion to each person's share.
- The uneven share is a percentage of the total including tip; everyone else splits the rest equally.
| People | Each pays (with tip) | Tip each |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $110.04 | $16.79 |
| 3 | $73.36 | $11.19 |
| 4 | $55.02 | $8.39 |
| 5 | $44.01 | $6.71 |
| 6 | $36.68 | $5.60 |
| 8 | $27.51 | $4.20 |
| 10 | $22.01 | $3.36 |
How this is worked out
The formula
total with tip = bill × (1 + tip%) even split: each = total with tip ÷ people uneven: one person = total × share%; others = (total − one person) ÷ (people − 1)
Open How it’s calculated above to see this worked through with your own numbers.
What you enter
- Bill total
- The amount on the check, before tip.in dollars · 0 or more · defaults to 186.5
- Number of people
- A number.from 1 to 500 · whole numbers only · defaults to 4
- Tip
- Set to 0 if the tip is already included.a percentage · from 0 to 100 · defaults to 18
- One person's share of the bill(under More options)
- 0 means split evenly. Enter 40 if one person had 40% of the food; the rest split the remainder equally.a percentage · from 0 to 100 · defaults to 0
What you get back
- Each person paysmain answer
- Total with tip
- Tip
- The bigger/smaller share pays
- Everyone else pays
- Tip per person
What this assumes
- Tip is a percentage of the whole bill, shared in proportion to each person's share.
- The uneven share is a percentage of the total including tip; everyone else splits the rest equally.
About this calculator
Enter the bill, how many people are paying and the tip, and you get what each person owes with the tip built in. For the friend who ordered the lobster, open More options and give one person a set share of the bill — everyone else splits what's left evenly.
How to use it
- Bill total is the pre-tip amount on the check (tax included, as printed).
- Tip applies to the whole bill and is divided among everyone. Set it to 0 if service is already included.
- One person's share (More options) is a percentage of the bill. If one person's items came to about 40% of the total, enter 40. Their tip scales with their share, which is the fair way to do it.
Reading the results
Each person pays is the headline number for the even members of the group. When an uneven share is set, the calculator shows both that person's amount and what everyone else pays. The table shows what the same bill costs per head with 2 to 10 people — useful before deciding whether to invite the extra couple.
Rounding and the last cent
Dividing $186.50 plus 18% by four gives $55.0175 each. Round to the nearest cent and the group is a few cents short or over; someone covers the difference. If everyone pays by card, most POS systems split evenly and put the odd cent on the last card.
Evenly or by item?
Splitting evenly is fast and works when everyone ordered similarly. It goes wrong when one person had a $14 salad and another had three cocktails. A quick compromise is to give the outliers a share percentage here and let the rest split evenly. For a full itemised split, each person adds their items, then multiplies by (1 + tax rate + tip rate) — tax and tip should be shared in proportion to what you ate, not divided per head.
Beyond restaurants
The same math splits a holiday rental, a group gift, a bar tab, or a taxi. For rent, set tip to 0 and use the share percentage for the person with the bigger bedroom.
Frequently asked questions
▸How do I split a bill with tip?
Add the tip to the bill first, then divide by the number of people. $186.50 with an 18% tip is $220.07, or $55.02 each for four.
▸How do you split a bill unevenly?
Give the person with the larger share a percentage of the total (including tip), then divide the remainder equally among the rest. This calculator does that with the 'One person's share' option.
▸Should tip be split evenly or by what each person ordered?
Ideally in proportion to what each person ordered, since tip is a percentage of the bill. If you split the bill by items, each person's tip is their subtotal × tip rate.
▸Is tax split evenly?
Tax is proportional to what was ordered, so strictly it follows the same shares as the food. Splitting a bill that already includes tax evenly is fine when orders were similar.
Put this calculator on your own site
A working split bill, free for any site, with no ads and no sign-up. It resizes to fit wherever you paste it and updates itself as this page improves.
Paste this anywhere. It works on any site, carries no ads, never expires, and always shows the current version.
Split Bill Calculator by CalculateItNow
The page's own title. The clearest description of what the link leads to.
The credit line sits outside the widget on purpose, so it is a real link on your page rather than one buried in a frame. Please keep it — it is what pays for CalculateItNow staying free and ad-free. The script only resizes the widget to fit its contents; drop it and the widget still works.
Browse every calculator widget·How to add it to WordPress, Squarespace or Wix
Related calculators
The questions people ask next to a split bill.
Work out the tip and total for any bill, split it between people, round the total up, and tip on the pre-tax amount — with a 15–25% comparison table.
Find what percent one number is of another, take a percentage of a number, or calculate percentage increase and decrease — with the working shown.
Add sales tax to a price or back the tax out of a total you've paid, at any combined state and local rate — with the tax amount and the arithmetic shown.
Find the sale price and savings for any percent off, stack a second discount, add sales tax, or work backwards from a sale price to the percentage off.