# CareerPulse Wage-Recovery Check

> CareerPulse Wage-Recovery Check is a paid API for AI agents from careerpulse-steel.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Computes unpaid overtime, minimum-wage shortfalls, final-paycheck penalties, and UK unlawful deductions with statutory-damage exposure, legal citations, and deadline math across US states, Ontario, and Great Britain

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://careerpulse-steel.vercel.app/api/career/wage-rights?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/careerpulse-wage-recovery-check-9b5800b5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JDkcH4y1xuQ8IXO_ec_Sa

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-wage-recovery-check-9b5800b5
```

Example prompt: I worked 52 hours a week at $22/hour in California for the past three months without overtime pay — can you calculate how much back pay I'm owed including any statutory damages?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need precise, rule-based wage-recovery calculations with statutory citations and penalty math rather than general legal advice. It is specifically suited for FLSA overtime (including CA/AK/NV daily rules and Ontario 44-hour rules), 2025/2026 effective-dated state minimum-wage tables, final-paycheck deadline penalties across eight US states, and UK unlawful-deduction tribunal window analysis. Prefer it over generic legal information sources when you need computed dollar amounts, deadline dates, and statutory damage exposure figures without relying on an LLM inference layer.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'check' parameter returns validation error
- Unsupported jurisdiction or state code returns error or empty result
- Malformed date for deduction_date causes parsing failure
- Ambiguous or missing hourly_rate/weekly_hours for overtime check returns incomplete calculation
- Out-of-range or future dates for deduction may return deadline-not-started result
- State not yet encoded (e.g. TX for final_pay) may return limited or federal-only result

## How this service works

Wage-recovery check — unpaid overtime (FLSA 1.5x + CA/AK/NV daily rules + Ontario 44h), minimum-wage shortfall vs effective-dated 2025/2026 state tables, final-paycheck deadlines & penalties (CA waiting-time, MA treble, NY 100%, IL 5%/mo, WA double), UK unlawful deductions (3-month tribunal window + ACAS route + NMW bands). Computed amounts with statutory-damages exposure, citations, deadline math. No LLM.

## Output

A JSON response containing the computed amount of unpaid wages or shortfall, applicable statutory damages and penalty amounts (e.g. CA waiting-time, MA treble damages, UK NMW uplift), the specific legal citations (FLSA, state statutes, UK Employment Rights Act), critical deadline dates for claims, and the jurisdictional rules applied to reach the calculation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "check"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "check": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "overtime | min_wage | final_pay | uk_deduction"
  },
  "state": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "final_pay: state code (CA/NY/TX/FL/IL/WA/MA/CO encoded)"
  },
  "amount_owed": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "final_pay: unpaid wages"
  },
  "hourly_rate": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "overtime: your hourly rate"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "US state code, US (federal), CA-ON (Ontario), GB via uk_deduction"
  },
  "weekly_hours": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "overtime: typical hours/week worked"
  },
  "deduction_date": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "uk_deduction: date of (last) deduction YYYY-MM-DD"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/careerpulse-wage-recovery-check-9b5800b5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from careerpulse-steel.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/careerpulse-steel.vercel.app/llms.txt)