If you are also an owner of the company, you don't have to be paid: owners are not required to be be paid salary or wages.However, all none-owner employees, even spouses, must be paid. So if you are an employee of the business--and you are, if you are not an owner but are a VP--you have to be paid. You don't have to be paid alot--for example, despite being a VP, you can made an hourly employee at minimum wage, in which case for any/every hour you actually do any work, you would have to be paid at least minimum wage (and also be paid overtime if you worked more than 40 hours in a week)--but when you do work, you have to be paid something under the labor and wage laws.