S Corp Business We do not hand you a fraction.
A wage is a judgment about the work. A poster percentage is a costume.
Start from the work.
Reasonable pay asks what the owner actually does, and what someone else would be paid to do that work. It does not ask for a slice of profit taken from a chart on the internet. We will not print that slice here.
The note we write is plain. The duties. The time. The wage we are willing to explain later. If the duties change, the note changes. A fraction carved in January is a bad guide in August.
Profit above that wage can be a draw, within what the owner has in the company. The draw is not a second wage and it is not a prize for picking a clever percentage.
What we refuse to publish.
A site that offers a single split for every company is guessing with confidence. Companies differ. An owner who also works a job elsewhere is not in the same spot as an owner who only works here. We will not flatten that into one fraction.
We also will not print a savings figure. A figure without your file is fiction. The form is for starting a conversation about your week, not for collecting a promised number.
If someone already told you a percentage, bring the sentence, not as gospel. We will set it next to the work you actually do and see whether it survives.
Write it down once.
The useful artifact is a short note in the file, dated, in words a stranger could follow. It sits with the acceptance letter and the provider setup. Together they explain the year without a speech.
We revisit the note when the work changes, not every Friday. A weekly rewrite is noise. A note that still describes last year's job, while you now run a crew, is the one we replace.
Send the form if you want that note started. Say whether a paycheck already exists. If it does not, the setup page is the next stop, and this page is the reason we will not invent a ratio on the way there.
Send the judgment.
Say what work the owner actually does in a week.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.