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Working for Someone Else
Only about 1 in 10 working Americans is self-employed. The land of entrepreneurs is, by the numbers, overwhelmingly a nation of employees — and the share has barely moved in decades.
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America venerates the entrepreneur, but only about 1 in 10 workers is actually self-employed — and most of them run tiny businesses, not unicorns.
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- OfficialU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Self-employment in the U.S.2023
- Intl. OrgOECD — Self-employment rate (indicator)2023