Tipping
Tipping is not one rule, so these are not one calculator
A restaurant tip is a percentage. A mover tip is per person per day. A hotel housekeeping tip is per night, and it is not the same tip if you stayed four nights as if you stayed one. A holiday tip for someone who has worked for you for six years is a different question again.
So each tool here follows the structure its own situation actually uses, rather than bending every case into a percentage. The baseline comes from a source we name; anything we decided ourselves is marked house judgment and appears as its own line, not folded silently into the total.
Your whole December list, one line per person — mail carrier, doorman, housekeeper, dog walker, trash crew, stylist. Every amount sits inside a range Emily Post publishes, and it warns you where the rules say your mail carrier cannot take cash.
Open tool →Wedding Vendor Tip CalculatorWhich wedding vendors expect a tip, which ones already have it written into the contract, and what each of the rest should get. Answers the “wait, did I already pay this?” question, using the IRS’ own line between a tip and a service charge.
Open tool →Mover Tip CalculatorWhat to hand each mover — by the hour for a local move, by the day for a long one, with the stairs and the piano priced in. Plus the part the invoice hides: a stair fee on your quote is the company’s charge, not a tip the crew already got.
Open tool →Hotel Tipping CalculatorWhat to tip at a hotel, one line per person — and each one counts something different: housekeeping per night, the bellhop per bag, the valet per time the car comes back. Plus what your resort fee actually covers, which the hotel is legally required to tell you.
Open tool →Salon Tip CalculatorHow much to tip at the salon or barber — and, because Emily Post's own figure says to split it among those who served you, who gets what. The stylist, the colorist and whoever was at the sink each get their own envelope, and the salon's service fee gets $0.
Open tool →Delivery Tip CalculatorWhat to tip on a food, pizza or grocery delivery. Emily Post says the tip depends on the size of the order and how hard the delivery was, but puts no dollars on either, so this starts at her lowest figure and shows every dollar we add on top. And the fees on your receipt are the app’s, not the courier’s.
Open tool →Tipping Abroad CalculatorWhat to tip in Japan, Britain, Italy, France, Mexico and Australia — in local money, one line per thing you are doing. Where a country’s own tourism board publishes a figure we use it and name it; where none does, the line says so. In Japan the honest total is zero.
Open tool →Tip Screen CalculatorThe iPad spins round with 25% already highlighted. Three of the rows here have a published answer of nothing — in Emily Post’s own words — so this prices each thing you did, next to what the screen asked for, and prints the difference.
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