S-Corp Reasonable Salary & Distribution Optimizer (US)

Description
Choose the salary. The file works out what that choice costs in payroll tax, shows every step of the arithmetic, and helps you build the record behind the figure.
Excel and Google Sheets.

Written for S-corp owner-employees who already know what reasonable compensation means and want the working rather than an explanation of it.

There are no formulas for you to write and nothing to install.

THIS FILE WILL NEVER NAME YOUR SALARY

Reasonable compensation has no formula. It is decided on the facts: what you actually do, how many hours it takes, your training, and what the market pays for that work. Any spreadsheet that hands you a salary figure is guessing.

So this one refuses. What it does instead is show you the comparables, the range your own duties and wages produce, and the payroll-tax arithmetic at any split you want to try. 

"Your salary is INSIDE the range your own duties and wages produce. That is arithmetic on the hours and wages you entered, not a view on what your tax authority would accept. Reasonable compensation has no formula and this file will never name your number. Agree the figure with your accountant and keep the worksheet as the record."