Wall Street on Parade has an interesting article about how the unemployment rate is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can be considered employed even you didn’t receive a dime in salary during the week the data is collected. Here's the BLS rationale:
People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time, year-round employment. Individuals also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week, whether they were paid or not, because they were: on vacation; ill; experiencing child care problems; on maternity or paternity leave; taking care of some other family or personal obligation; involved in a labor dispute; prevented from working by bad weather.
And then there is a group called unpaid family workers, which includes any person who worked without pay for 15 hours or more per week in a business or farm operated by a family member with whom they live.
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