The other great benefit about the self employed is you can count them as employed in the unemployment statistics but then ignore them in the average wage calculation
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Key Findings
At points, average earnings would have been higher had the data captured the self-employed as well as employees, but since the downturn they would have been consistently lower
Including the self-employed in our most timely earnings barometer would have worsened our view of the fall in earnings since the pre-recession peak by between 20 and 30 per cent
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