Built for enrolled agents serving S-corp owners

Defensible S-corp salary guidance for your EA practice

SafeRatio helps EAs produce IRS-aligned, audit-ready reasonable compensation reports without adding hours to tax season.

Designed for lean tax practices · Built on BLS wage data · See sample report

What EAs tell us

The recurring blockers in one- and two-person firms

High-volume, seasonal pressure

Tax season compresses deadlines. Manual salary research and writeups become a bottleneck when every hour matters.

Client pushback on salary levels

Owner-clients want lower wages. You need a clear, defensible range and language that supports your recommendation.

Audit documentation gaps

When questions come later, recreating assumptions is painful. Documentation should exist before an IRS letter arrives.

How SafeRatio helps EAs

Built to support seasonal volume and year-round advisory conversations

Comparable wage benchmarks

Benchmark owner duties against BLS wage data with geography and role context, then present a range you can explain.

Audit-ready output

Generate a clean PDF with assumptions, methodology, and rationale to support your file and client communication.

Faster turnaround

Replace manual spreadsheets and one-off templates so you can keep momentum across a high-volume S-corp client list.

Advisory-ready positioning

Use reasonable compensation as a recurring advisory deliverable, not just a tax-season scramble item.

Built for your annual rhythm

Tax season focus now, advisory expansion outside peak season

During tax season

Move faster

Create consistent salary analyses quickly so returns keep moving and open items do not pile up.

Post season

Deepen advisory

Use comp reviews to open planning conversations with S-corp owners around wages, distributions, and risk.

Year-round

Stay defensible

Keep clear support in the file with a repeatable methodology and documented assumptions each year.

Give your S-corp clients recommendations you can defend

No subscriptions. Per-report pricing. Audit-ready output.

SafeRatio is an independent software platform and is not affiliated with NAEA.