The strength of using earnings is that it standardizes profits by farm partner. Doing so allows for a direct comparison of CSA operations of different sizes (e.g., those with a single farmer and those run by four farm families) and for direct comparisons with other individual employment, such as farmworkers’ earnings. Another strength is that asking many questions in open- and closed-ended formats allowed me to understand the type of accounting used—that is, if salaries are considered a business expense, part of the profit, or what is left over—which allows for a more accurate determination of earnings than if a single question about the amount of profit were used, since that profit may exclude farmers’ salaries or include them, depending on the respondents’ accounting.