# BLS Labor Market Data (hr-bls)

> BLS Labor Market Data (hr-bls) is a paid API for AI agents from agentdatum.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) labor force participation rates and job openings (JOLTS) data for employment market analysis.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentdatum.com/api/v1/d/hr-bls
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bls-labor-market-data-hr-bls-1cadae69
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_qb8JgimHVayU2GOM2yc27

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 bls-labor-market-data-hr-bls-1cadae69
```

Example prompt: What is the current U.S. labor force participation rate and the latest job openings count from the BLS? Pull me the most recent JOLTS and labor participation figures.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, no-registration access to official U.S. labor market statistics from the BLS, specifically labor force participation rates and JOLTS job openings data, without building a BLS API integration yourself. It is ideal for agents needing macroeconomic context, HR benchmarking, or employment trend monitoring at low per-call cost via x402 micropayment. Prefer alternatives if you need historical time-series filtering, specific BLS series codes, or data beyond participation rate and job openings.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream BLS data source unavailable or rate-limited, causing a 502 or timeout
- Payment not completed via x402 protocol, resulting in 402 Payment Required
- Stale or cached data if BLS has not published a new release
- No query parameters supported, so filtering by date range or series may not be possible
- Data lag due to BLS publication schedule — figures may not reflect same-day updates

## How this service works

就业市场 — BLS 劳动力参与率/职位空缺（v1 免key，已实测可用）。

## Output

Returns structured U.S. employment market data sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including the labor force participation rate (percentage of working-age population actively employed or seeking work) and job openings/vacancies counts from the JOLTS survey. Data is returned in a structured JSON format.

## 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": [],
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "raw": {
   "latest": {
    "year": "2026",
    "value": "4.1",
    "latest": "true",
    "period": "M07",
    "footnotes": [
     {}
    ],
    "periodName": "July"
   },
   "recent": [
    {
     "year": "2026",
     "value": "4.1",
     "period": "M07"
    },
    {
     "year": "2026",
     "value": "4.1",
     "period": "M07"
    }
   ],
   "series": "LNS14000000"
  },
  "_error": "HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable",
  "_stale": true,
  "source": "bls",
  "data_type": "人力资源",
  "collected_at": "2026-08-08T12:09:10Z"
 }
}
```

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