Gift and tipping amounts
Stop guessing what to give.
Answer a few questions about the occasion and you get one amount — not a fifty-to-two-hundred-dollar range.
Every line that produced it is shown, and each one is marked either sourced or our own judgment. Nobody else in this category tells you which is which.
Worked example
A close friend's wedding. You're bringing a plus-one, and you're paying to fly there.
Give $190. That's the average US wedding gift, moved up because you're close and bringing someone, and back down because you're paying to be there.
| Why that much | Amount |
|---|---|
| Average US wedding giftSourcedZola's 2026 report puts the average gift at $130 | $130 |
| Close friend, not familySourcedZola's close-friend band starts at $150 | +$25 |
| You're bringing a plus-oneHouse judgmentHalf a head again — deliberately under Zola's 1.5× | +$65 |
| Flights and hotel are on youHouse judgment8% of a $400 trip; travel is part of what you gave | −$32 |
Baseline source: Zola, 2026 First Look Report. The two judgment lines are ours, and we say so. Informational only — what you can afford to give is your business, not ours.
Every figure is labelled
Sourced numbers name the publication and link to it. The rest say plainly that they are our judgment. Hiding a house rule behind an implied study is the one thing we will not do.
Nothing is collected
No sign-up, no email, no saved answers. The arithmetic runs in your browser and the page forgets it the moment you leave.
No opinions about your budget
These tools compute; they do not approve. What you can give is your business, and there is no line here telling you to be more generous.
The calculators
None of these are live yet. Each one ships only once its baseline has a published source we can name and link to, so the first tools are taking longer than a template would.
What to give, for the occasion you are actually going to — worked from a cited baseline and the specifics you select, not a range.
Tipping is not one rule. Each of these follows the structure its own situation actually uses — per drink, per mover, per night, per trip.
The part of this category that does have a right answer: dividing a bill or a group gift so nobody quietly subsidises anyone else.