Answers Employment Cost
by asiaref.dev in Other
Cost to employ: every statutory contribution priced line by line, employee and employer sides separated, with the schemes we will not price named and reasoned
https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost- Price
- $0.05
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 875 ms
- 931 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost
Each call costs $0.05 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost
content-type: application/json
{
"country": "ae",
"gross": 5000,
"period": "month"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
childless_over_23 | boolean | No | Germany: adds the 0.6-point long-term-care surcharge, borne by the employee alone |
children_under_25 | number | No | Germany: reduces the employee care rate by 0.25 points for the second through fifth child under 25 |
contract | string | No | Selects the right unemployment rate (ES) and the fixed-term surcharge (IT) One of: indefinite, fixed_term. |
country | string | Yes | ISO country code carrying a costed contribution schedule One of: ae. |
gross | number | Yes | Gross pay in local currency |
nationality | string | No | Required in the Gulf: GPSSA pension reaches UAE and GCC nationals only — an expatriate has no pension deduction at all One of: national, gcc, expat. |
period | string | No | Period the gross covers (default month) One of: month, year. |
receipt | boolean | No | Optional. true adds an Ed25519 answer receipt on a paid 200, incluedd in this price. Not a certified extract. |
subdivision | string | No | ISO 3166-2 code where a region runs its own schedule rather than the national one — CA-QC swaps CPP/EI for QPP/QPIP, JP prefectures set their own health rate, NO zones set the employer rate. Bare and lower-case forms are accepted ('SN' and 'de-sn' both mean DE-SN). A code we do not serve is REFUSED… |
workplace_pension | boolean | No | Auto-enrolment participation (GB) / PPK (PL). Both are opt-out, so default true |
zusatzbeitrag_rate | number | No | Germany: the employee's own sickness fund supplement. There is no national rate; without it the health figure is incomplete |
Example response
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Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"country":"ae","gross":5000,"period":"month"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"country":"ae","gross":5000,"period":"month"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasiaref.dev%2Fv1%2Fanswers%2Femployment-cost&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"country": "ae",
"gross": 5000,
"period": "month"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost",
json={
"country": "ae",
"gross": 5000,
"period": "month",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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History
| 17 Oct 2026 | Price changed from $0.1 to $0.05 |