Self-Employed Person

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025164",
  "term": "Self-Employed Person",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Those persons who work for profit or fees in their own business, profession, trade, or farm. Only the unincorporated self-employed are included in the self-employed category.\n\n2. Includes people who worked for profit or fees in their own unincorporated business, profession, or trade, or who operated a farm. 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\n3. 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.",
  "references": [
    "DOL Bureau of Labor Statistics Glossary",
    "U.S.Census Bureau American FactFinder Glossary",
    "U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/self-employed-person/"
}