# CareerPulse Salary Benchmarking

> CareerPulse Salary Benchmarking is a paid API for AI agents from careerpulse.theaslangroupllc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns real compensation data (salary ranges, percentiles) for a given job role, location, and experience level to support job-seekers and career coaches.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://careerpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/career/salary
- 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/careerpulse-salary-benchmarking-5ff2ceec
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9GpqjYmBlq5_4L4TJ-wwA

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 careerpulse-salary-benchmarking-5ff2ceec
```

Example prompt: What's the typical salary range for a senior software engineer with 5 years of experience in Austin, Texas? I want to know if what I'm being offered is competitive.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need current, real-world salary benchmarking data for a specific role, location, and seniority level — particularly for job-seeker advisory workflows, offer evaluation, or career coaching scenarios. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, queryable compensation data with consistent output format ready for downstream agent use.

## Known failure modes

- Role or location not recognized — returns error or empty result
- Insufficient data for niche roles in small markets — may return sparse or estimated ranges
- Missing required parameters (role, location, or experience level) — returns 400-level error
- Payment failure (x402) — call rejected if USDC payment not completed
- Rate limiting or network timeout if service is unavailable

## How this service works

Salary benchmarking for job-seeker and career-coach agents. Returns real compensation data by role, location, and experience level.

## Output

Returns real compensation data including salary ranges, percentiles (e.g. 25th, 50th, 75th), and median pay for the specified job role, geographic location, and experience level — structured to help a job-seeker or career coach evaluate whether an offer or expectation is market-aligned.

## 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",
     "properties": {
      "yoe": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "5 (years of experience)"
      },
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | zh | ja | ko | pt | ar | hi"
      },
      "title": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "p25": 108000,
  "p50": 128000,
  "p75": 152000,
  "p90": 178000,
  "equity_typical": "$40-80K/yr RSUs at funded startups",
  "total_comp_p50": 165000,
  "bonus_typical_pct": 12
 }
}
```

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