How to Use self-employed in a Sentence

self-employed

adjective
  • By the way, the self-employed are in this tally.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What are common tax mistakes for the self-employed?
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Among those who want to be self-employed, 59% wish to own a small business.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • People in this group tend to be self-employed or work for small businesses.
    — Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, victims who are unemployed or self-employed are out of luck.
    — Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
  • As a father of five who is self-employed, Rainey said the issue is a big deal.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2025
  • They can be employed by a media company or self-employed.
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Both Vincenty and her husband are self-employed.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This story has been updated to correct that Cofer is self-employed.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Otroverts would rather be self-employed or work independently than on a team.
    — Jamie Friedlander Serrano, Time, 13 Mar. 2026
  • More than half of India’s work force is technically self-employed.
    — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • Sure, not everyone can become self-employed or redesign their career.
    — Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Her father, who is self-employed and takes on odd jobs, is the sole provider for Amponsah and her two siblings back home.
    — Johane Saintil, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Robinson is self-employed in the area of finance, according to his campaign website.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In the Eaton fire zone, according to the poll, 20% of residents were self-employed.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The survey was designed to understand how the self-employed fared during the period.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Nathaniel Welch is self-employed and does not have a campaign website detailing his positions on state issues.
    — Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Only some who work exclusively in the gig or cash economy, or who are entirely self-employed, might not be listed.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In another change, disaster survivors who are self-employed and whose tools are lost or damaged would be able to get money to replace that equipment.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Burch Mixon is now self-employed as a garden designer, working with residential clients.
    — Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The visa lasts for two years and can be extended as long as the holder remains employed by a local company or is self-employed by the time the visa expires.
    — Joy Dong, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Basham has also been self-employed as a venture capitalist since 2016.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Nearly 40 percent of those who were not self-employed said their job is extremely or very important to their identity.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The self-employed can also opt in, receiving 80% of their average weekly net earnings.
    — Eileen Appelbaum, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • Most of my family are self-employed, so the conversations were always about navigating that.
    — refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Rodriguez earned his commercial driver's license and now is self-employed, working as a trucker in Southgate.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
  • So for the affluent self-employed, paying taxes becomes ever more optional.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The program is popular with people who are self-employed and those who don’t get insurance through their work, Roders Turner said.
    — Christopher O'Donnell, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
  • In fact, the poor were already covered through Medicaid, whereas his was a program for uninsured working people and the self-employed.
    — Joe Klein, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
  • Or the landlord raises the rent, or property prices are rising so rapidly that rent becomes the biggest financial concern for the self-employed.
    — Paula De La Cruz, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

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