# CareerPulse Salary Negotiation Playbook

> CareerPulse Salary Negotiation Playbook is a paid API for AI agents from careerpulse-steel.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a data-driven salary negotiation playbook including market benchmarks, target salary, equity/signing bonus asks, and a ready-to-use counteroffer script

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://careerpulse-steel.vercel.app/api/career/negotiate
- 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-negotiation-playbook-6a927435
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1h7AwrrbdJSqOAiApcljS

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-negotiation-playbook-6a927435
```

Example prompt: I just got a job offer for a Senior Software Engineer role in the US with a base of $155,000 — can you pull up a negotiation playbook with market benchmarks, a target salary, equity and signing bonus asks, and an actual script I can use in the call?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when a user has a specific job offer in hand and needs a concrete, script-ready negotiation strategy with market-sourced salary benchmarks, equity guidance, and signing bonus recommendations — especially when they need a ready-to-speak counteroffer line rather than just raw salary data

## Known failure modes

- Role or country not recognized — returns 404 or empty benchmarks
- Insufficient market data for niche roles in small countries — lower confidence or null p75
- Missing required query parameters (role, country) — returns 400 bad request
- x402 micropayment not included or rejected — returns 402 Payment Required
- Rate limiting if many calls made in short succession — returns 429

## How this service works

Global career intelligence API serving the world's 3.5 billion workers. 10 endpoints: salary benchmarking (any role + any country, sourced from BLS, OECD, ILO, Glassdoor, Levels.fyi), industry outlook, skills-gap analysis (with Coursera/Udemy/Pluralsight course links), ATS-optimized resume intelligence, salary negotiation playbooks, career transition roadmaps, remote work setup intelligence, certification recommendations (with A Cloud Guru/Pluralsight links), interview prep, and layoff/severance guidance. Full global scope — 190+ countries, 75+ languages via ?lang= parameter. LinkedIn Premium and resume builder affiliate links on relevant endpoints. All require x402 micropayment (USDC on Base).

## Output

Returns a JSON object with market p50 and p75 salary figures, a recommended negotiation target, an equity RSU ask, a signing bonus ask, a ready-to-use counteroffer script, and the historical success rate for negotiating in this role/market

## 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": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | zh | ja | ko | pt | ar"
      },
      "offer": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "title": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Senior Software Engineer"
      },
      "company": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Google | Amazon | Stripe"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "San Francisco, CA"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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": {
  "equity_ask": "$50K additional RSUs",
  "market_p50": 168000,
  "market_p75": 192000,
  "signing_bonus_ask": "$25K",
  "negotiation_target": 175000,
  "counteroffer_script": "Based on my research I was expecting closer to $175,000 — is there flexibility?",
  "success_rate_negotiating": 0.73
 }
}
```

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