I'm not in CA, my condolences to anybody who is - it's a notoriously business hostile state. I pay myself about $14K/mo pretax (modulo B&O which is paid on reve

I'm not in CA, my condolences to anybody who is - it's a notoriously business hostile state. I pay myself about $14K/mo pretax (modulo B&O which is paid on revenues) - enough to comfortably sustain a family of 3 in my area. This is obviously lower than market rate for what _I_ do, but not out of the line for software engineering in general. I also don't do any distributions. I expect that at some point I'll only be working _very_ part-time on whatever it is my clients want me to do, and spend the rest of the time on my own stuff, and this is where most of the tax savings will come from: you pay less tax overall if the salary you pay yourself yearly is less.