Payroll of One is the money manual for one-person American businesses. If you’re a freelancer, consultant, solo founder or single-member LLC, everything here is written for you: one owner, no employees, and a lot of paperwork nobody taught you.
Read these in order
- Should you become an S-corp? The single biggest money decision for a profitable solo business.
- How to pay yourself from an S-corp. Salary, distributions and payroll for one.
- Reasonable salary. How to set yours so the IRS stays happy.
- The best payroll software for a one-person S-corp. What it costs and what to pick.
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Payroll of One is itself a one-person business. The LLC, the bank account, the books and the payroll behind this site get documented here and on YouTube, so you can see exactly what I picked, what it costs and what I’d skip.