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Tip & Hourly Earnings Calculator

Estimate tips after tip-out and hourly shift earnings from sales, tip rate, hours and base pay. The calculator runs in your browser; amounts are before tax.

Estimated hourly earnings

$29.49

$221.18 estimated before-tax shift earnings over 7.5 hours

Estimated tips after tip-out

$205.20

from $216.00 estimated tips

Estimated tip-out

−$10.80

5.0% of your tips

Estimated base pay

$15.98

$2.13/hr × 7.5h

Based on your entries, tip-out reduces this estimate by $1.44 per hour worked.

How this tip calculator works

  1. Estimate collected tips: total sales × average tip rate.
  2. Subtract tip-out as a percentage of those tips.
  3. Add hours worked × hourly base pay, then divide by hours for an hourly estimate.

For example, $1,000 in sales at a 20% average tip produces $200 in tips. A 10% tip-out leaves $180. Five hours at $10 base pay adds $50: $230 for the shift, or $46 per hour before taxes. These are illustrative inputs.

Is tip-out calculated from tips or sales?

This tool uses a percentage of tips. If your workplace uses sales, service charges or a tip pool, this estimate does not model that arrangement.

Can I calculate hourly tips without base pay?

Set hourly base pay to zero. The hourly result then represents estimated tips after tip-out divided by hours worked.

This is an estimate from figures you enter, not a payroll, tax, tip-pool, or dispute record. It applies an average tip rate to sales and assumes tip-out is a share of tips; some workplaces use sales, service charges, or other rules instead. Amounts are before tax and any employer charges. Displayed amounts are rounded to cents before the total is calculated. The calculation runs in your browser and does not save a shift record.

TipStash is a separate app for recording your actual tips, hours and tip-outs. This calculator does not save a shift to the app.

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