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Tip pool calculator
Share the tips your team collected, to the cent: by the hours each person worked, equally, or by points and days worked as the Turkish rule sets out. Copy the result and send it to your team.
Split
Tips shared
2,000.00
Per hour: 18.18
Emma
38 h · 34.5%
690.91
Leo
32 h · 29.1%
581.82
Mia
24 h · 21.8%
436.36
Sam
16 h · 14.5%
290.91
How the points method works
With the example team in the calculator: 2,000 in tips, four people.
- 01
Find each person’s points
Start from their job group’s lower limit and add points for seniority. Emma is a waiter, group III: 18 points.
- 02
Multiply the points by the days worked
Emma worked 5 days: 18 × 5 = 90 point-days. The four together have 238.
- 03
Split the tips by point-days
One point-day is worth 2,000 ÷ 238 = 8.40. Emma’s share is 2,000 × 90 ÷ 238 = 756.30.
- 04
Keep a record
Write down who was paid what, and post the point table where everyone can see it. In Turkey the records are kept for five years.
The tip point table (Turkey)
The table attached to the Turkish regulation puts jobs into five groups. A job not on it gets the points of the closest similar job; someone whose work falls into more than one group gets the higher one.
| Group | Jobs | Points |
|---|---|---|
| I | Head chef, maître d’hôtel, head of reception | 26–30 |
| II | Assistant head chef and maître d’hôtel, assistant head of reception, section heads, head front cashier | 22–26 |
| III | Assistant section heads, cook, waiter, bartender, pastry cook, dessert maker, cold kitchen cook, döner maker, head cashier, captain, reception and reservations staff | 18–22 |
| IV | Assistant waiters and cooks, cashier, buffet attendant, baker, butcher, first-class dishwasher, coffee maker, head commis, housekeeping and room cleaners, security guard, bellboy | 14–18 |
| V | Commis, dishwasher, yard attendant, luggage porter, messenger, night watchman, gardener, cleaner, trainees | 10–14 |
Tip sharing rules in Turkey
- Tips and service charges left with the employer or collected under their control are paid in full to everyone working there; the employer must be able to show it.
- Each employee shares by the days they actually worked and their points.
- For people working outside service, a quarter of their points count. Their wages can’t be cut because of the share, and their minimum wage can’t be made up from it.
- Points for overtime hours are added to normal points; the employer pays the difference up to the overtime rate.
- The employer gives the employees’ representative a record of every bill’s total and posts the point table at the workplace.
Source: Turkish Labour Law No. 4857, Articles 51 and 52; the regulation on distributing percentage payments to employees (Yüzdelerden Toplanan Paraların İşçilere Dağıtılması Hakkında Yönetmelik), Articles 4–12.
To track who worked which days over the month: timesheet template →
Tips in the app too
Split the tips in Shiftrio every month
In Shiftrio you enter the tips collected in a month; they’re split equally or by the hours of that month’s published shifts, and the split stays on record. When someone asks who got what, the answer is there. The schedule, time off and overtime live in the same place.
Free for up to 10 employees. iPhone and Android.
Questions
- How do I split a tip pool by hours?
- Add up everyone’s hours and divide the tips by that total to get the amount per hour, then multiply it by each person’s hours. The calculator does it to the cent, so the shares add up to the pool exactly.
- How are tips shared under Turkish law?
- Tips and service charges the employer collects are shared by a regulation: each person’s points are multiplied by the days they actually worked that month, and the tips are split in proportion to the results.
- Can the employer keep part of the tips in Turkey?
- No. Tips and service charges left with the employer or collected under their control are paid in full to the employees, and the employer must be able to show it.
- Do kitchen staff get a share?
- In Turkey, yes: the law has the money paid to everyone working there. On the point table a cook is in group III, an assistant cook in group IV and a dishwasher in group V.
- What is the tip point table?
- The table attached to the Turkish regulation, putting jobs into five groups: group I 26–30 points, II 22–26, III 18–22, IV 14–18 and V 10–14. People start at their group’s lower limit and gain a point for every three successful years in the same group.
- What happens to the leftover cents?
- Each share is rounded down to the cent, and the cents left over go one each to the shares rounded down the most. The shares always add up to the pool exactly.
The calculation follows Turkish Labour Law No. 4857, Articles 51–52, and the regulation on distributing percentage payments, and is for information only; it is not legal or payroll advice. Ask your accountant how tips are taxed and reported.