I forgot to add that between the two cases that I mentioned, the salaried employee also has 5 weeks or more of paid vacation. The self-employed worker just bill

I forgot to add that between the two cases that I mentioned, the salaried employee also has 5 weeks or more of paid vacation. The self-employed worker just bills for days that they works. Vacation is unpaid or more accurately needs to be factored in as a cost in order to compare apples with apples and not oranges.