Reasonable Salary
“I work part-time on my S-Corp and full-time at a high-paying day job, does my existing W-2 job lower my reasonable salary requirement?”
For an S-Corp owner who also has a full-time W-2 job, the reasonable salary question often turns on the nature of the work performed for the corporation, the time and effort actually devoted to that business, and how much of the S-Corp income is tied to services rather than investment or other activities. A separate high-paying day job can be one factor in the overall picture, but it does not automatically determine the salary analysis. Records showing duties, hours, and the role you perform in the S-Corp are often important, along with how the business would pay someone else for similar work. Sitting down with a CPA for thirty minutes is usually enough to draw a clean line on this.
In your 60-minute session, the KGOB advisor handling it will:
- Read your exact situation and tell you, in plain English, what’s actually going on.
- Lay out your options and the trade-offs — no jargon, no judgment.
- Give you a clear next step you can act on, whether that’s with us or on your own.
This page is a prompt to start a conversation, not tax or legal advice, and states no tax-law specifics as fact. A consult session does not by itself create an ongoing engagement. We do not promise specific outcomes or savings. Kohari Gonzalez Oneyear & Brown PLLC — Charlotte, NC.
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