Are you self-employed? I've worked for myself for many years -- worked for Wyattopia, anyway -- as a commercial appraiser, a real estate broker, and as a software engineer. However, I don't really have a good sense of how many other folks are in the same boat, or how self-employment correlates to overall income. Judging from the map I've including with this post, many people in the Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area earn at least a portion of their annual household income from self-employment (1 dot = 1 person).