Secret Santa Budget Calculator

About this calculator

A Secret Santa gift exchange works by dividing a group's total gift budget evenly across participants — per-person budget = total budget ÷ number of participants — so everyone buys and receives one gift within an agreed spending cap. Office groups, extended families, and friend circles typically set that per-person figure between $15 and $30 specifically to keep the exchange affordable and fair regardless of group size.

This calculator flips the usual planning question around: instead of guessing a per-person limit, an organizer enters the total amount the group wants to spend and the number of people drawing names, and gets the exact per-person cap to announce — useful for office holiday parties, school classes, and family gift swaps where the group size changes every year.