Answers Wage Check
by Usaref - N America reference in Markets & finance
Wage check: is this salary legal vs statutory minimum wage? Verdict + margin + instrument
https://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 858 ms
- 1.1 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 17 min ago, next in 10 min
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check
Each call costs $0.02 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://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check
content-type: application/json
{
"amount": 85000,
"country": "bs",
"period": "month"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
amount | number | Yes | Wage to check, in the country's own currency |
country | string | Yes | ISO country code One of: bs, ca, cr, do, gt, hn, mx, pa, sv, us. |
period | string | Yes | Period the amount covers — must match the statutory floor's period (no guessed conversions) One of: month, day, hour, week. |
receipt | boolean | No | Optional. true adds an Ed25519 answer receipt on a paid 200, included in this price. Not a certified extract. |
schedule | string | No | Optional. Measure against a sectoral, zonal or occupation-grade floor instead of the general one — 'above the national floor' is not the same as compliant. Valid keys per country: GET /catalog (wage_schedules_available). Unknown key is refused free with the list. |
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 $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"amount":85000,"country":"bs","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://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"amount":85000,"country":"bs","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 $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
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 $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fusaref.dev%2Fv1%2Fanswers%2Fwage-check&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"amount": 85000,
"country": "bs",
"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 $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://usaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check",
json={
"amount": 85000,
"country": "bs",
"period": "month",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 min ago | Passed | 402 | 893 ms | $0.02 |
| 5 h ago | Passed | 402 | 874 ms | $0.02 |
| 11 h ago | Passed | 402 | 850 ms | $0.02 |
| 16 h ago | Passed | 402 | 851 ms | $0.05 |
| 21 h ago | Passed | 402 | 835 ms | $0.05 |
Show 10 older checks
| 25 h ago | Passed | 402 | 857 ms | $0.05 |
| 30 h ago | Passed | 402 | 259 ms | $0.05 |
| 35 h ago | Passed | 402 | 906 ms | $0.05 |
| 39 h ago | Passed | 402 | 861 ms | $0.05 |
| 44 h ago | Passed | 402 | 850 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 868 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 870 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 858 ms | $0.05 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 1.1 s | $0.05 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 869 ms | $0.05 |
History
| 17 Oct 2026 | Price changed from $0.05 to $0.02 |