True hourly calculator
Your schedule says one wage; your bank account says another. Your true hourly is what a shift really paid per hour once tips come in, the tip-out goes out, and your base wage is counted. Enter a shift below.
Your shift
What that shift really paid
- Net tips
- $0
- Wages for the shift
- $0
- Take-home
- $0
- True hourly
- $0/hr
Tipfolio computes this after every shift and shows how it trends across weeks, jobs, and days of the week.
Coming soon to theApp StoreWhy true hourly beats every other number
A busy Friday with heavy tip-out and a slow Tuesday with none can pay the same per hour — you can't know without doing this math. True hourly puts every shift on one scale, which makes real questions answerable: is the closing shift worth it? Is the new job's higher wage beating the old job's better tips? Should you drop Sundays?
How it's calculated
(tips − tip-out + base wage × hours) ÷ hours. That's take-home for the shift divided by the time it took. Taxes aren't subtracted here — for that, see thetax set-aside calculator.
What counts as a good true hourly?
It varies hugely by city, venue, and shift. What matters more than any benchmark is your own spread: most tipped workers who start tracking find their best regular shift pays 1.5–2× their worst per hour. Knowing which is which is worth real money — that's the case for logging every shift, not just remembering the good ones.