Pay Yourself Planner · Owner pay calculator
Turn uneven months into a steady paycheck, with a buffer for the slow months and money set aside for taxes before they’re due.
Online tool · Instant access · Yours for life
12
Months, planned ahead
See every month before it happens
4
Quarterly tax payments
With the amount and due date for each
1
Steady paycheck
The same amount, every month
$27
One-time payment
Lifetime access, saved to your account
Part calculator, part plan, the Purposepreneur™ Pay Yourself Planner helps you stop living on leftovers and start paying yourself on purpose.
Introducing the
A steady paycheck from an unsteady income.
Enter what came in each month (or fill a whole year from one yearly total), add your business costs and choose your pay, and the built-in calculator does the math. The planner shows how your buffer plays out month by month, tells you exactly how to split every payment you receive, and lays out your quarterly estimated taxes with their due dates.
What you’ll plan
Month by month, or filled in from one yearly total.
Everything the business pays before you do.
What you can pay yourself every month, based on your real income.
One to six months of pay and costs, set aside for the slow seasons.
Watch your buffer rise and dip across the year before it happens.
Pick your percentages and they come off the top of every payment.
Exactly where each dollar goes the moment it lands.
What to set aside for each payment, with its due date.
Before
After
I’ve spent 20+ years in marketing and brand strategy, and plenty of those years working for myself. Uneven income comes with the territory. Living paycheck to “maybe” doesn’t have to. This planner is the system I wish I’d set up sooner.
A slow month should be a blip, not a crisis.
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Enter what came in each month, or fill a whole year from a yearly total.
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Add your costs, choose your monthly pay and pick your tax and profit percentages, and the calculator does the rest.
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See your safe paycheck, your buffer month by month and your quarterly tax amounts.
This is perfect for…
Why entrepreneurs love it
Better together
The Pay Yourself Planner picks up your costs and taxes from the Profit Calculator, so your set-asides match the numbers you’ve already worked out. The Full Toolkit brings all six tools together for $147 ($212 if you bought them one by one), plus every new tool as it launches.
The steadiest approach is a fixed monthly paycheck. Choose an amount your business can reliably support, pay it on the same day every month and let a buffer fund absorb the ups and downs. Good months top up the buffer, slow months draw from it, and your personal life stays steady either way. Think of this planner as your pay calculator: it helps you find that amount and see how it plays out over a year.
Monthly, on the same day each month, is the simplest steady rhythm. A fixed payday turns your pay into a real paycheck instead of a reaction to whatever just landed, and your buffer fund covers the gap when a client pays late or a month runs slow. The Pay Yourself Planner works out a monthly paycheck your business can keep paying, then shows exactly how to split every payment you receive, so the money is there on payday.
Enough to live on, and no more than your business can reliably support. The planner works like a calculator: it looks at your real income and costs and suggests a safe monthly amount to pay yourself. Then it shows your buffer month by month, so you can test a higher or lower amount before you commit.
Many business owners aim for three months of pay and business costs, and that’s where the planner starts. You can choose anywhere from one to six months, depending on how uneven your income is and how much calm you want.
It depends on where you live and what you earn. The planner starts at 25% of every payment, or uses the rate you worked out in the Profit Calculator, and you can change it anytime. It also shows your four quarterly estimated tax payments with their due dates, so nothing sneaks up on you.
It’s a small share of every payment (the planner starts at 5%) that you keep as profit, separate from your paycheck and your costs. Use it for a bonus, an investment or a rainy-day cushion. Paying yourself and keeping profit are two different things, and this keeps them that way.
That’s exactly who it’s for. Enter each month as it really was, or fill in a typical year from one yearly total, and the planner shows how a steady paycheck and a buffer would carry you through the dips.
The quarterly tax dates follow the US schedule. Everything else works anywhere: your paycheck, your buffer, your set-asides and your payment splits. Just set your own tax percentage.
No. It’s a planning tool that helps you see your own numbers clearly. For advice about your specific situation, a bookkeeper or tax professional is always a good call.
No, you can enter everything yourself. If you’ve used the Profit Calculator, your costs and tax rate carry over, so you only enter your numbers once.
Right after checkout, log in and your tool is waiting in your Purposepreneur™ Toolkit. It works on your laptop or your phone, and everything you enter saves as you go.
Because you get the full tool the moment you check out, all sales are final. Not sure yet? Try the free tools first, like Business Pulse and Runway to Leap, to see how the toolkit works. And if you ever get stuck, reply to your order confirmation email for priority support.
Smooth out the slow months, set aside your taxes and pay yourself on purpose. Get instant access now.
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