What is the service charge on a Singapore bill?

Full-service restaurants, hotels and some salons typically add a 10% service charge before GST. You will often see prices marked as plus-plus, meaning 10% service charge and 9% GST are added on top of the listed price.

Should I tip a taxi driver in Singapore?

No tip is expected for taxis or private-hire rides. At most, people round the fare up to the nearest dollar. There is no obligation and drivers do not anticipate a gratuity.

How much GST is added in Singapore?

Singapore's Goods and Services Tax is 9%. In food and hospitality it is usually charged on the bill after the 10% service charge, so the two stack: the GST is applied to the bill plus service charge.

Is it rude to tip in Singapore?

It is not rude, just unnecessary. A small extra for exceptional service or a few dollars for a hotel porter is appreciated but never required. Staff will not expect or chase a tip the way they might in tipping cultures.

Singapore Tipping Guide & Calculator

Q: Do you tip in Singapore?

Generally no. Tipping is not part of Singapore culture and is not expected. Most restaurants and hotels already add a 10% service charge to the bill, which acts as the gratuity, so leaving extra is purely optional and uncommon.

Email me this result

Get this tool's output sent to your inbox, plus one useful tool a week. No spam, unsubscribe any time.

A Singapore tipping guide and calculator that reflects how things actually work here: tipping is not customary. Most full-service restaurants and hotels already add a 10% service charge (plus 9% GST), which serves as the gratuity, so anything extra is entirely optional. The tool computes the real total and splits it per person.

How it works

The calculator picks a service-charge convention from the setting you choose, then layers GST and any optional tip:

service charge = bill * 10%        (restaurants, hotels, salons; 0% for hawker, taxi)
subtotal       = bill + service charge
GST            = subtotal * 9%     (if enabled)
extra tip      = bill * (your %)   (optional, default 0)
total          = subtotal + GST + extra tip
per person     = total / number of people

For hawker centres, casual cafes and taxis the service charge is 0% and no tip is expected — you simply pay the stated price (rounding a fare up at most).

Example and notes

A 80 SGD restaurant bill for 2 people with the default settings: a S$8.00 service charge, S$7.92 GST on the S$88 subtotal, no extra tip, for a S$95.92 total — about S$47.96 each.

The headline takeaway: in Singapore you almost never need to tip. Where a service charge appears, it is the gratuity. All figures are calculated locally in your browser.