WageProof

WageProof is a United States software and report-generation brand that produces reasonable compensation reports for S-corporation owner-employees. Reasonable compensation is the salary the IRS requires an S-corporation owner-employee to pay themselves before taking distributions; the IRS evaluates whether that salary is reasonable using nine factors from IRS Fact Sheet FS-2008-25. WageProof turns that requirement into a documented, source-cited report that CPAs, enrolled agents (EAs), and tax advisors can deliver to clients under their own white label, and that S-corp owners can also run for themselves. The company says a report takes about 15 minutes to produce. The product is built on public federal wage data rather than a proprietary black-box model. WageProof draws on Bureau of Labor Statistics data covering more than 7,000 job titles across more than 500 U.S. metro and nonmetro areas, and it applies three IRS-recognized approaches: a Cost Approach that builds up from BLS task-level wages by pricing each duty separately and weighting it by time spent; a Market Approach that uses comparable executive compensation for the owner's primary occupation in their geographic market; and an Income Approach based on the Independent Investor Test, which derives compensation from company financials and a target investor return. Every figure in a report is meant to trace to a published source, and the full method is published on the company's methodology page rather than held back as a proprietary model. WageProof was built by Josh Green, a fractional COO and CFO who advises nonprofits and small businesses on financial modeling, governance, and executive compensation through his consulting firm, RightStart. He built the tool while working through the S-corp election for his own company, and he has previously built compensation benchmarking tools on federal datasets, including one covering 1.9 million IRS 990 filings. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and its primary audience is professional accounts — CPAs, EAs, and tax advisors — with a secondary self-service path for S-corp owners. WageProof is a private company and is not publicly listed.

WageProof was created by Josh Green, a fractional COO and CFO who advises nonprofits and small businesses on financial modeling, governance, and executive compensation through his consulting firm, RightStart. According to the company's About page, Green built WageProof while working through the S-corp election for his own company. That origin explains the product's focus: the S-corp election requires an owner-employee to take a reasonable salary before distributions, and determining and documenting that salary is a recurring compliance problem for small-business owners and their advisors. Green's prior work involved building compensation benchmarking tools on federal datasets, including one covering 1.9 million IRS 990 filings. WageProof applies a similar public-data approach to S-corp reasonable compensation. Rather than relying on a proprietary model, the company publishes its full method on a methodology page and cites the exact source behind each number in a report, so figures can be checked against the same public data an IRS examiner would use. The product is aimed first at professional accounts — CPAs, EAs, and tax advisors — who can deliver white-labeled, audit-ready reports to their S-corp clients, and second at S-corp owners who want to run their own reports. WageProof states that a report takes about 15 minutes to produce. The reports draw on Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data covering more than 7,000 job titles across more than 500 U.S. metro and nonmetro areas, and they apply three IRS-recognized approaches: the Cost Approach, the Market Approach, and the Income Approach (Independent Investor Test). The company is based in San Francisco, California, and offers a reasonable compensation calculator and a reasonable compensation guide alongside the core report product. It is a private company and is not publicly listed.

• Josh Green builds WageProof while working through the S-corp election for his own company.

• WageProof launches a reasonable compensation report product for CPAs, EAs, and tax advisors, with a self-service option for S-corp owners.

A source-cited, audit-ready reasonable compensation reporting tool for S-corp owners and the tax professionals who advise them, built on public Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data and IRS-recognized methodologies.

• S-Corp Reasonable Compensation Report

  White-labeled, audit-ready reasonable compensation reports for S-corp clients, built on Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data and the IRS's three approaches, generated in about 15 minutes.

• Reasonable Compensation Calculator

  A calculator to estimate a reasonable salary range for S-corp owner-employees.

• Reasonable Compensation Guide

  A guide explaining how the IRS evaluates S-corp owner salaries.

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