Class of worker

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-000294",
  "term": "Class of worker",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definitions": [
    "Categorization of workers determined by the type of ownership of the employing organization.\n\nNote: The class-of-worker categories are private and government wage and salary workers, self-employed workers, and unpaid family workers.",
    "All people over the age of 15 who have been employed at any time are asked to designate the type of work normally done or the work performed most regularly. Occupations and types of work are then broken down into the following 5 classes.\n\nPrivate Wage and Salary Workers--Includes people who worked for wages, salary, commission, tips, pay-in-kind, or piece rates for a private-for-profit employer or a private-not-for-profit, tax-exempt, or charitable organization.\n\nSelf-employed people whose business was incorporated are included with private wage and salary workers because they are paid employees of their own companies. Some tabulations present data separately for these subcategories: \"For profit,\" \"Not-for-profit,\" and \"Own business incorporated.\"\n\nGovernment Workers--Includes people who are employees of any local, state, or federal governmental unit, regardless of the activity of the particular agency. For some tabulations, the data are presented separately for the three levels of government.\n\nEmployees of foreign governments, the United Nations, or other formal international organizations controlled by governments should be classified as \"Federal Government employee.\"\n\nSelf-Employed Workers--Includes people who worked for profit or fees in their own unincorporated business, profession, or trade, or who operated a farm.\n\nUnpaid Family Workers--Includes people who worked 15 hours or more without pay in a business or on a farm operated by a relative.\n\nSalaried/Self-Employed--In tabulations that categorize persons as either salaried or self-employed, the salaried category includes private and government wage and salary workers; self-employed includes self-employed people and unpaid family workers."
  ],
  "see_also": [
    "Worker"
  ],
  "references": [
    "BLS Glossary",
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/class-of-worker/"
}