If you pay yourself out of your profit ... that money by definition is not profit! Profit is the income above and beyond the expenses of operating your business. Profit compensates you for the risk of owning a business and allows the business to be improved and expanded. Profit is not there to pay for current expenses, including labor.
If you had to pay someone else to do the work you normally do, would that labor cost be paid out of profits? No. It's an expense of operating the biz and that labor cost should be part of your base cost of your product. If you pay yourself that same salary, the same is also true -- it is an expense that is part of the base cost of your product.
If at some point you are successful enough that you can use profits to reward yourself -- perhaps invest in an IRA, or pay yourself a bonus, or whatever -- that's your choice.
Ever wonder why people start a small biz and eventually go broke after years of hard work? All too often, they don't take care of themselves as well as they do everyone else. They've been pulling every cent out of the biz just to pay for groceries. They have no profit and they cannot do anything more than just barely exist.
Yes, it is true that the owner often cannot draw a salary from a young business while it's getting established. And that can be a death knell for owners who don't have enough savings or outside income to support them while the business gets on its feet. But the base cost of that labor should always be included in the product costs, not in the profit margin.
