# euroref Wage Check – European Minimum Wage Reference

> euroref Wage Check – European Minimum Wage Reference is a paid API for AI agents from euroref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the current statutory national minimum wage for a specified European country (Germany or France) as authoritative JSON with official source citation, effective date, and staleness flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://euroref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/euroref-wage-check-european-minimum-wage-reference-6bd1ab47
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_TdfpKqVVaKVztQnQywjPx

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 euroref-wage-check-european-minimum-wage-reference-6bd1ab47
```

Example prompt: What is the current statutory national minimum wage in Germany? I need the official figure with its source citation and effective date.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a machine-readable, cited, authoritative minimum wage figure for Germany or France — particularly when compliance, auditing, or downstream validation requires a traceable primary-source URL and an explicit staleness signal. Prefer it over scraped or uncited sources when your workflow depends on knowing exactly when the value was last confirmed.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns an error or empty result (only 'de' and 'fr' are supported)
- Stale flag set to true if the authoritative source has not been re-confirmed recently, signalling the agent should treat the value with caution
- Payment required (HTTP 402) if the x402 micropayment header is missing or invalid
- Truncated response if the notes field is very long — agents should handle partial text gracefully

## How this service works

Authoritative European government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Germany (de), France (fr). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing the minimum wage value and currency unit, the country code, the effective date, the last-confirmed date, a boolean staleness flag, a series identifier (e.g. 'min-wage'), and a source object with the official URL and name of the government or statutory publication that confirmed the figure, plus any relevant structural notes or disclaimers.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "unit": "percent",
  "notes": "STRUCTURAL NOTE: Germany has NO national policy rate. The Deutsche Bundesbank has had no independent monetary-policy competence since 1 January 1999; monetary policy for the euro area is set by the ECB Governing Council under Art. 127-133 TFEU and the ESCB/ECB Statute. The value served is the euro-area-wide ECB deposit facility rate (DFR), which applies identically in all 20 euro-area members, not a German-specific rate. On 11 June 2026 the Governing Council raised all three key rates by 25 basis points with effect from 17 June 2026: deposit facility 2.25%, main refinancing operations (MRO) 2.40%, marginal lending facility 2.65%. This was the first ECB increase since September 2023, reversing part of the eight cuts delivered between June 2024 and June 2025; the ECB cited energy-driven inflation pressure from the Middle East conflict. The DFR is served here because since the 18 March 2024 framework change the ECB steers short-term money-market rates through the DFR and narrowed the MRO-DFR spread to 15bp; the MRO rate (2.40%) remains the headline 'refinancing' rate cited by some sources. No Governing Council monetary-policy meeting fell between 17 June 2026 and the last_confirmed date, so 2.25% is still in force. Note separately that the German statutory Basiszinssatz under Section 247 BGB, published semi-annually by the Bundesbank and used for default interest, is a distinct national figure and is NOT a monetary policy rate. Access: ecb.europa.eu serves the full key-rates table as static HTML and loaded cleanly.",
  "stale": false,
  "value": 2.25,
  "series": "policy-rate",
  "source": {
   "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.mp260611~4d41bd5e83.en.html",
   "name": "European Central Bank, Monetary policy decisions of the Governing Council, 11 June 2026 (press release ecb.mp260611); Key ECB interest rates statistical table"
  },
  "country": "DE",
  "disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
  "effective_from": "2026-06-17",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-07-20"
 }
}
```

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