# asiaref Minimum Wage Check

> asiaref Minimum Wage Check is a paid API for AI agents from asiaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the current national minimum wage for a specified Asian country with official source citation, effective date, and staleness flag

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://asiaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-minimum-wage-check-56ea6eb9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tD1JZVDvmszdrka_T5XH5

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 asiaref-minimum-wage-check-56ea6eb9
```

Example prompt: What is the current national minimum wage in India? I need the official figure with its government source, effective date, and whether the data is still fresh.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a machine-readable, cited minimum wage figure for India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, or Singapore, especially for compliance, payroll, or financial modeling workflows that require an auditable official source and freshness metadata. Prefer it over web scraping or general-purpose search when you need a structured JSON response with effective dates and staleness flags rather than unstructured text.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns an error or empty response
- Stale flag set to true indicates the value has not been recently re-confirmed against official sources
- Network timeout if the service is temporarily unavailable
- Missing or malformed country parameter may return a validation error
- Data may lag behind very recent government announcements before the service has re-confirmed

## How this service works

Authoritative Asian government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for India (in), Japan (jp), South Korea (kr), Philippines (ph), Singapore (sg). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing the minimum wage value (numeric), unit (e.g. currency per period), country code, series identifier, effective date, last confirmed date, a boolean staleness flag, descriptive notes with context, and a source object with the official government URL and document name. Also includes a disclaimer that the service is independent and not government-affiliated.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "unit": "percent",
  "notes": "MPC voted unanimously on 2025-12-05 to cut the repo rate 25bp to 5.25% with immediate effect, retaining a neutral stance. Rate corridor: Standing Deposit Facility 5.00%, Marginal Standing Facility and Bank Rate 5.50%. Held at 5.25% through the February 4-6, April 6-8 and June 3-5, 2026 MPC meetings (June 5, 2026 statement: unchanged, neutral stance; FY27 CPI projection raised to 5.1%). rbi.org.in homepage rate ticker confirmed 5.25% 'as at 1.00pm of July 20, 2026'. Next scheduled review: August 2026.",
  "stale": false,
  "value": 5.25,
  "series": "policy-rate",
  "source": {
   "url": "https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=61749",
   "name": "Reserve Bank of India, Monetary Policy Statement 2025-26 — Resolution of the Monetary Policy Committee (58th meeting, December 3-5, 2025), press release of 5 December 2025"
  },
  "country": "IN",
  "disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
  "effective_from": "2025-12-05",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-07-20"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-minimum-wage-check-56ea6eb9/health.json
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