What is the unincorporated self-employment rate in installation, maintenance, and repair?

• A. 4.4%
• B. 8.9%
• C. 5.8%
• D. 6.2%

Answer: (D)

The main idea here is what “unincorporated self-employment rate” means in an industry. It’s the share of workers in that industry who are self-employed and operate their business as an unincorporated entity (like a sole proprietorship or partnership), rather than as a incorporated company. In installation, maintenance, and repair, this rate is a little over six percent, meaning roughly six in every hundred workers fall into that unincorporated self-employed category. The rest are wage-and-salary employees or self-employed but incorporated (owner-operators of corporations or similar structures), so the unincorporated portion remains a relatively small slice of the total. This helps explain how common independent, non-incorporated contracting is in this field.