Employer facts for kids
An employer is a person or a group, like a company or government, that hires people to work for them. They offer money, called a wage or a salary, to workers in exchange for their work or labor.
How Employers Pay Workers
When someone gets paid by the hour, it's usually called a wage. This means they get money for every hour they work, including extra hours (called overtime). A salary, on the other hand, is a set amount of money paid regularly, like every two weeks or once a month. People on a salary usually don't get extra pay for working more hours than usual.
Who Can Be an Employer?
Employers can be very different! It could be an individual hiring a babysitter for a few hours. Or it could be huge governments or big businesses that employ thousands of people. In many countries, governments are the biggest single employers. However, most people actually work for smaller or medium-sized businesses in the private sector (businesses not owned by the government).
Images for kids
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Wiki-training with employees of Regional Institute of Culture in Katowice 02
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A call centre worker confined to a small workstation/booth.
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All employees, private industries, by branches
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Government employment as % of total employment in EU
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Youth employment rate in the US, i.e. the ratio of employed persons (15–24Y) in an economy to total labor force (15–24Y).
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A worker in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
See also
In Spanish: Empleador para niños
