# BLS Employment Cost Index (ECI) Year-Over-Year Benchmark

> BLS Employment Cost Index (ECI) Year-Over-Year Benchmark is a paid API for AI agents from www.stratalize.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns BLS Employment Cost Index year-over-year percentage changes for total compensation, wages, and benefits to support labor cost inflation modeling.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.stratalize.com/api/x402/employment-cost-index
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bls-employment-cost-index-eci-year-over-year-benchmark-f9c26149
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EN5m52gDPstEOsilwOI_N

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## 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 bls-employment-cost-index-eci-year-over-year-benchmark-f9c26149
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest BLS Employment Cost Index year-over-year figures for total compensation, wages, and benefits — I need it for our labor cost inflation model and want the cryptographic receipt so we can verify the data source.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, BLS-sourced employment cost inflation data with cryptographic verifiability for audit trails. Ideal for financial modeling, contract escalation clause benchmarking, margin pressure analysis in operating plans, and any workflow requiring independently verifiable labor cost data. Prefer over manual BLS lookups when you need structured, machine-readable output with a signed receipt.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not included or invalid: 402 Payment Required response, endpoint requires $0.10 USDC per call via x402 protocol
- BLS data not yet refreshed for current period: stale freshness timestamp returned with last available data
- Network or upstream BLS data source unavailable: service error or timeout
- Invalid request format: non-GET method or malformed request body returns 4xx error

## How this service works

Stratalize — attested finance, legal, healthcare, and compliance intelligence. Signed, independently verifiable receipt on every call (trust.stratalize.com/verify). BLS Employment Cost Index year-over-year change for total compensation, wages, and benefits. Use when modeling labor cost inflation, contract escalation, and margin pressure in operating plans. Source: BLS ECI. $0.10 standard

## Output

Returns BLS ECI year-over-year percentage changes for total compensation, wages, and benefits, along with a data freshness timestamp, the BLS as the named data source, a cryptographic receipt ID (ML-DSA-65 signed), and a verification URL at trust.stratalize.com/verify for independent auditability.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "component": {
   "enum": [
    "total",
    "wages",
    "benefits"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ECI component to return"
  }
 }
}
```

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