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Shift earnings calculator
Add up a week of shifts with base wage and tip-outs handled properly, and get the blended rate across all of them — not an average of averages.
Total take-home
$0.00
Fill in a shift to see your total
- Tips kept, after tip-out$0.00
- Base wage earned$0.00
- Hours worked0 h
- Blended real rate—
Everything above is worked out in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored or logged — there is no server behind this page.
Why "blended" and not "average"
If you take the rate from each shift and average those rates, a two-hour lunch counts exactly as much as a ten-hour Saturday. That is almost never what you want, and it systematically flatters short shifts — which tend to look better per hour because the slow first hour is a smaller share of them.
The blended rate adds all the take-home, adds all the hours, and divides once:
blended rate = total take-home ÷ total hours
It is the number that answers "what does a week of this job actually pay me per hour of my life", which is the question worth asking.
What counts as take-home here
| Line | What it means |
|---|---|
| Tips | Everything you were tipped, cash and card, before anything comes out. |
| Tip-out | What you handed to bar, bussers, runners and hosts. Capped at your tips. |
| Base wage earned | Your cash wage × the hours on that shift. |
| Take-home | Tips kept + base wage earned. |
Note what is deliberately not here: taxes, withholding and payroll deductions. This is gross take-home from the shift, which is the right basis for comparing shifts against each other. What lands in your account after withholding is a separate question and depends on your whole tax picture.
Use it to answer a real question. Enter a typical week from one job, then a typical week from another. The blended rate is the only fair way to compare them once tip-outs, base wages and shift lengths all differ — and it is often not the answer people expect.
A week is a sample, not the truth
One week tells you about that week. Seasonality, section assignment, the weather and one big party can move a week's blended rate by a third. If you are making a decision — taking a job, dropping a shift, asking for a section — you want months, not days. That is the case for logging as you go rather than reconstructing later. How to keep that record →
Five rows is a week. Tipfolio holds the year.
Log each shift as it happens and the blended rate, the weekday pattern and the annual totals come free — from your own entries, on your own phone.
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