The self-employment rate is the percent of all employed people who have their own businesses (“proprietors”) as opposed to working for someone else in return for wages or salary.
In 2021, the self-employment rate in Bear Lake. . .
- was 42.1 percent, compared to 40.3 percent in 2010, 39.8 percent in 2000, 40.0 percent in 1990, and 33.4 percent in 1980;
- was 42.1 percent, compared to 26.1 in Idaho;
- ranked 5th – from highest to lowest – out of Idaho's 44 counties.