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Tipping, made legible

FairTip Advisor is a free tip calculator built for the moments when you're standing at a card reader, doing arithmetic in your head, and hoping you got it right.

The app takes a single bill amount and turns it into every gratuity from 10% to 25%, so you can see the whole ladder at once instead of guessing at a percentage. It covers far more than restaurant service: waiters, bartenders, baristas, delivery drivers, hotel housekeepers and bellhops, valets, movers, tour guides, stylists and tattoo artists. Each role comes with its own guidance, including the flat and per-item rates that apply to porters and housekeepers, where a percentage of the check makes no sense at all.

It's for anyone who has ever felt unsure at the end of a meal or a hotel stay: travelers from places where tipping works differently, people splitting a check across a table, students on a budget, and generous tippers who simply want to land on a fair number quickly. A state selector nudges the suggested rate toward local norms, a quantity stepper handles per-bag and per-night charges, and the split calculator divides both the tip and the bill across the table.

FairTip Advisor is built and maintained by the small team behind FairTip Advisor, who treat gratuity as an etiquette question rather than a math problem. The percentages are guidance, not rules — adjust them for the shift, the city and the service you actually received.

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Where the biggest tips land

  • Tattoo
  • Massage
  • Movers
  • Waiter
  • Bar

Typical ticket per job: 18% of a $300 session · 18% of a $120 session · $20 a mover, one mover · 20% of a $75 table · 18% of a $40 tab. The dotted line is the average across these five.