{"id":44,"date":"2026-04-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/2026\/04\/17\/reasonable-salary-s-corp\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:00:00","slug":"reasonable-salary-s-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/reasonable-salary-s-corp\/","title":{"rendered":"What counts as a reasonable salary in an S corp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"anps-lead\">Pay yourself too little and you invite an audit; pay too much and you lose the S corp advantage. Finding the middle.<\/p>\n<h2>Start with the market rate<\/h2>\n<p>A reasonable salary is roughly what you would pay someone else to do your job. Industry salary surveys are a good starting point.<\/p>\n<h2>Document the decision<\/h2>\n<p>Keep a short memo with the data you used. It turns a judgment call into a defensible position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay yourself too little and you invite an audit; pay too much and you lose the S corp advantage. Finding the middle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-structure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.accounting.anpsthemes.com\/demo12e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}