# Employment Cost Estimator (20+ Countries)

> Employment Cost Estimator (20+ Countries) is a paid API for AI agents from api.strale.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0324/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Calculates total employer cost and net salary estimate for a given gross salary in a specified country, including social contributions, pension, and income tax.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.strale.io/x402/employment-cost-estimate?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.0324/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-strale-io-0e087ada
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WEek-VrcFvR8YuLl2R2I8

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-strale-io-0e087ada
```

Example prompt: What's the total employer cost and estimated net salary for a €60,000 gross salary in Germany, in EUR?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a fast, multi-country salary cost calculation covering employer social contributions, pension, and income tax without building country-specific payroll logic. Ideal for HR tools, hiring cost dashboards, EOR (employer of record) comparisons, or budget planning across international teams.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required gross_salary parameter returns validation error
- Missing required country_code parameter returns validation error
- Unsupported country_code returns error indicating only 20+ supported countries
- Payment not provided or insufficient returns 402 Payment Required with accepted payment details
- Invalid currency code may return error or default behavior

## How this service works

Calculate total employer cost and net salary estimate for 20+ countries. Includes social contributions, pension, income tax.

## Output

Returns total employer cost (gross salary plus all employer-side contributions), net salary estimate after income tax and employee deductions, employer contributions breakdown, and effective tax rate for the specified country and salary.

## Example request

```json
{
 "currency": "EUR",
 "country_code": "DE",
 "gross_salary": 60000
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "gross_salary",
      "country_code"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "currency": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "country_code": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "gross_salary": {
       "type": "number"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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