How to split nail salon tips between technicians

Two technicians working on your manicure and pedicure does not mean their tips must be equal. A shared team pool is a different calculation again. Use this guide to choose the right NailWage mode, enter your own amounts and check each share. All examples are illustrative and use USD.

Open the tip and tip-pool calculator

Choose the amount for a customer tip

Enter Service price before tax and tip (USD), then choose 15%, 18%, 20%, 25% or Custom. The initial 20% is editable, not a required rate. Example 1: $100 at 20% gives Your tip of $20 and Service + tip of $120.

Service + tip excludes sales tax and other receipt charges. There is no tax field. The calculator neither restores a discount nor subtracts included gratuity: enter the basis you choose and check the receipt separately. Custom accepts 0%; an empty field is not zero.

Enter two technicians’ service prices separately

Select Two technicians worked on my manicure and pedicure. Enter each technician’s service price, not the whole bill in the first box followed by the second service again. One percentage applies to both. Open See each technician’s tip and the math for the breakdown.

Example 2: $35.25 and $44.75 at 18% produce tips of $6.35 and $8.06. Total tip is $14.41; service plus tip is $94.41. Each tip rounds to cents before addition, so this differs by one cent from rounding 18% of the combined $80 once.

Set up the team pool

Click Split a tip pool and enter Total tip pool (USD). Three recipients appear initially; add or remove rows to match your group, from one to twenty people. Keep track of who corresponds to each numbered row. Choose Evenly, By turns or By hours.

Example 3: $99.99 shared Evenly among three recipients gives $33.33 each. The large Total tip to split remains $99.99; it is the whole pool, not one person’s payment. Check the individual amounts underneath before distributing it. No fees or deductions are taken from this pool.

Use weights and account for leftover cents

For By turns or By hours, enter a value for every recipient using the method your group has agreed on. Hours and turns have separate fields; switching methods does not turn four visits into four hours.

Example 4: split $9.98 By hours, with 1, 4 and 1 hours in row order. The shares are $1.67, $6.65 and $1.66, totaling $9.98. The same numeric weights By turns give the same allocation, although their meaning is different.

Shares first round down to whole cents. Leftover cents go to the largest fractional remainders; ties follow row order. Do not round each share again. Open How the split and leftover cents work to review the method.

Check input and recipient eligibility

• Use nonnegative values with up to two decimal places. A dot or comma works for decimals; omit currency symbols, percent signs and thousands separators.
• Each service price and the pool total accept $0–$100000; percentages accept 0–100%; each turns or hours value accepts 0–10000.
• Complete required fields. A dash is not a zero result. Clear resets only the current mode.

Accurate arithmetic does not approve a pooling policy. DOL explains that employers, managers and supervisors cannot keep employees’ tips through a pool; state protections may be stronger. Confirm eligibility and applicable rules separately.

DOL source: employee tips and tip pools

Entries stay in browser state, without saving, URL serialization, financial analytics or automatic closeout entries. Record any result you need and reconcile tips already paid before using it elsewhere. This calculator is not a tip ledger or tax return.