How to Use self-employment in a Sentence

self-employment

noun

• Italy’s visa options include a long or short-term self-employment visa, or lavorno autonomo, and a start-up visa.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2024
• For Gen Z, self-employment is also about having more control over their lives.
  — Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• One-third of Gen Z believes that the best way to wealth is self-employment, according to a December survey.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• There are entrepreneur or startup visas, self-employment visas, student visas, and so on.
  — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The fee is further reduced when stylist agency fees and self-employment taxes are taken into account.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
• Identify your self-employment goals when considering a move What might self-employment look like for you?
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
• After answering a series of basic questions about your business or gig work, Cash App Taxes wants to know about your self-employment income.
  — PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
• The vast majority of companies are started in the home, by people following their dreams of self-employment and seeking control of their own destinies.
  — Andy Unanue, Fortune, 29 May 2023
• There’s been a particular acceleration in the gig economy—self-employment increased about 20 percent in the first two years of the pandemic.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
• The gig economy, as well as opportunities for self-employment that can be used as an entrepreneurial tool, is also giving Gen Z-ers a way out from the doldrums of work routines.
  — Michèle Lamont, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• For those with good careers and good benefits, retirement may well mean a time to try an encore career, experiment with self-employment, find part-time work, or stick with a current employer for a few more years.
  — Chris Farrell, Fortune Well, 6 Apr. 2023
• However, the success of creating or replacing an income and the freedom that self-employment can bring often leads to complacency.
  — Peter Boolkah, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• For example, the requirements for proof of self-employment didn’t come until later in the program, after many had already collected benefits.
  — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 18 Apr. 2024
• Estimated tax is used to pay income tax plus self-employment tax and alternative minimum tax.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• That is, women opting for self-employment to escape the un-meetable demands of managing a career, childrearing, and household management.
  — Gemma Allen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Past studies have pointed to Gen Z being more in favor of self-employment as they’re met with the realities of an increasingly expensive economy.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Feb. 2024
• It’s also well documented that immigrants have higher rates of self-employment, whether that means working as an Uber driver, pushing a street food cart or launching an ambitious tech business.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• The deduction is limited to the individual’s net earnings from self-employment.
  — Margie Zable Fisher, Fortune Well, 24 Aug. 2023
• Here entrepreneurship looks like another name for self-employment, and self-employment a euphemism for unemployment.
  — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Deliveroo argues that its riders enjoy the flexibility provided by self-employment, with many using it as a side hustle or a stepping stone to other careers.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
• Spain also has great public healthcare (and healthcare reimbursements), international schools, and self-employment visas that may appeal to entrepreneurs, freelancers, and digital nomads.
  — Lilly Graves, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
• In theory, umbrella companies offer a streamlined approach to handling the administrative burdens that come with self-employment.
  — Jules Herd, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Instead, Chile has seen a rise in self-employment—some 20 percent of the formal labor force now work as independent contractors or for themselves, sacrificing the social security protections or benefits of salaried employees.
  — Shannon K. O'Neil, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2017
• Plan for self-employment taxes, covering both employer and employee portions of Social Security and Medicare.
  — Ebony Flake, Essence, 29 May 2024
• Once your business reaches this level of profitability, the S corporation status will shelter your income from 15.3% self-employment taxes resulting in significant tax savings.
  — Cindy McGhee, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• Publication 505, Tax Withholding and Estimated Tax includes worksheets and examples that can be helpful to those with dividend or capital gains income; those who owe alternative minimum tax or self-employment tax; or special situations.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• The individual typically lacks a local connection, local law allows contributions of assets other than cash, or local law does not limit the amount of contributions by reference to income earned from employment or self-employment activities.
  — Carrie Brandon Elliott, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• California’s Employment Development Department lists what qualifies as wages, which includes payment for work performed, tips, residual pay, self-employment income and severance.
  — Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024