My 1099 is paid time off. How do I avoid paying self employment tax on it?

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to your return.
2. Go to income
3. Scroll down to Other Common Income
4. Select Income from 1099-MISC
5. Edit/ Start/ Revisit
6. Enter income -the income should be in box 3,
7. Enter tax if any withheld in box 4
8. Continue
9. Describe the reason -
10. continue
11. None of these apply
12. Continue
13. Did this involve main job?
14. No -this is for the worksheet to get the right answer despite it being your job
15. Continue
16. How often do you get?
17. Got in 2024 - even if you receive this each year so the program won't think this is another job
18. Continue
19. Intent to earn money?
20. No again, obviously you work for money but this needs to be no for the worksheets
21. Continue
22. Do you have another?
23. No
24. Continue