✶Creatives & Freelancers
Make your art. Keep your sanity.
Multiple income streams, quarterly taxes, S-corp questions, and royalty checks. One flat monthly rate keeps it all straight.
Balance, PLLC provides bookkeeping for creative professionals and freelancers: artists, designers, writers, musicians, and makers with multiple income streams, royalties, and contract work. The Solo plan runs $300 per month with quarterly books, annual summaries, and tax-ready deliverables, and S-corp owner payroll adds $300 per month.
Freelance income arrives from everywhere: client invoices, platform payouts, royalties, teaching gigs, merch. Balance pulls the streams into one clear picture, keeps quarterly tax estimates grounded in real numbers, and answers the S-corp question with math instead of internet folklore.
✶Creatives & Freelancers
Freelance finance, untangled
Many streams, one picture
Etsy, Patreon, client work, royalties, and the day-rate gig all land in different platforms with different fees. Balance consolidates them so you know what you actually earn.
The S-corp question, answered with math
At a certain income level an S-corp election saves real self-employment tax, but it adds payroll obligations. Balance models your numbers, and if the election makes sense, runs the owner payroll for $300 per month.
Quarterly taxes without the guesswork
Quarterly books mean your estimated payments are based on actual income, not last year’s hope. No April ambush.
Deductions, captured
Studio rent, software, supplies, conference travel. Photo-capture habits and a chart of accounts built for creative work make sure deductible spending is not left on the table.
Where most creatives & freelancers start
I have worked with Balance PLLC from the very first steps of my own LLC in 2015. I have come to rely upon Pam’s expert information, advice, and abilities in making sure my business runs as smoothly as possible. I strongly recommend her to others who want a personal touch and hands-on-approach in their accounting needs.
Jeremy L. Nienow, PhD., RPA
Owner and Principal, Nienow Cultural Consultants LLC
✶Good Questions
Creatives & Freelancers questions
Is $300 per month worth it for a freelancer?
Count the hours you spend on books, invoices, and tax worry, then multiply by your billable rate. For most working freelancers the math pays for itself before the stress relief is even counted, and clean books routinely surface deductions that cover a chunk of the fee.
Should I become an S-corp?
It depends on your profit level, state, and goals. The general shape: above roughly $60,000 to $80,000 in consistent profit, the self-employment tax savings often outweigh the payroll overhead. Balance runs your actual numbers in a free consultation instead of guessing.
I have not done my books in two years. How bad is this going to be?
Less bad than you fear. Catch-up cleanup is a flat one-time project, typically $1500, and then the $300 per month plan keeps you current. Pam has organized literal shoeboxes; your bank exports will be fine.
We get each other.
Start with a free consultation. Bring the weird stuff, that is the fun part.