# ausref Wage Check – Australia & New Zealand Minimum Wage Lookup

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

Returns the current national minimum wage for Australia or New Zealand as authoritative JSON with a citation to the official primary source, effective date, and staleness flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ausref.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/ausref-wage-check-australia-new-zealand-minimum-wage-lookup-04326871
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aORshIqrorUKZuMOu6e6X

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 ausref-wage-check-australia-new-zealand-minimum-wage-lookup-04326871
```

Example prompt: What is the current national minimum wage in Australia, and can you give me a link to the official government source it came from?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need the current national minimum wage for Australia or New Zealand with a traceable citation to the official primary source (Fair Work Commission, NZ government). Prefer it over general web search when you need structured JSON output with effective dates and staleness flags for compliance, payroll, or policy use cases. Not suitable for other countries or for state/territory-level minimum wages.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns an error or empty result (only AU and NZ are supported)
- Staleness flag may be true if the underlying government source has updated since last confirmation
- HTTP 402 payment required if x402 payment header is not provided
- Truncated or malformed input schema may cause unexpected query behaviour
- Rate limits or service unavailability returning 5xx errors

## How this service works

Authoritative Australasian government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Australia (au), New Zealand (nz). 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 and unit (e.g. hourly rate in AUD/NZD), the series identifier ('wage-check'), effective_from date, last-confirmed date, a staleness boolean flag, an official source object (name + URL linking to the government gazette or Fair Work decision), country code, and a disclaimer noting the service is independent and values should be verified against the cited source.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "unit": "percent",
  "notes": "The Board raised the target 25bp from 4.10% to 4.35% at its 5 May 2026 meeting (media release mr-26-12); RBA convention is that a change takes effect the business day AFTER the decision, hence effective_from 2026-05-06. The Board met again on 16 June 2026 and left the target unchanged, so 4.35% is confirmed current as at 2026-07-20. 2026 tightening sequence to date: 3.60% -> 3.85% (decision 3 Feb 2026, mr-26-03, eff. 4 Feb 2026), -> 4.10% (decision 17 Mar 2026, eff. 18 Mar 2026, a 5-4 split), -> 4.35% (decision 5 May 2026, eff. 6 May 2026), unchanged 16 Jun 2026. Since the Reserve Bank Reforms Act 2025 (Cth) commenced the decision-maker is the Monetary Policy Board (not the former single Reserve Bank Board), and votes are published: the May 2026 decision was 8-1 (eight to raise 25bp, one to hold at 4.10%). The RBA does not set the cash rate by legal instrument - it is an operational target implemented through open market operations and the Exchange Settlement Account remuneration corridor (ES balances remunerated at the target). ACCESS QUIRK: rba.gov.au returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers; this value was read from the official page and media release via a plain-text rendering proxy (r.jina.ai) of the same URLs and via search-engine surfacing of rba.gov.au content, not from a third-party aggregator. Next scheduled decision: 11 August 2026.",
  "stale": false,
  "value": 4.35,
  "series": "policy-rate",
  "source": {
   "url": "https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/cash-rate/",
   "name": "Reserve Bank of Australia, Cash Rate Target statistical table (F1.1) and Monetary Policy Board decision of 5 May 2026 (media release 2026-12, 'Statement by the Monetary Policy Board: Monetary Policy Decision', https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2026/mr-26-12.html)"
  },
  "country": "AU",
  "disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
  "effective_from": "2026-05-06",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-07-20"
 }
}
```

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