# laborwage-occupations

> laborwage-occupations is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Resolves a free-text occupation title to a ranked list of Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) candidates with codes, official titles, and match scores.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/wage/occupations
- 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/laborwage-occupations-fe3e1861
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_erP5zfVc5b4CL50NmCD5y

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 laborwage-occupations-fe3e1861
```

Example prompt: What are the top SOC code matches for 'Machine Learning Engineer'? Give me up to 5 ranked candidates with their official titles and match scores.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint as the first step in any prevailing-wage determination workflow when you only have a free-text job title and need the correct SOC code. It is cheaper and faster than full wage lookups, making it ideal for narrowing down classification before committing to a more expensive wage query. Prefer this over manual SOC code lookup tables when the job title is non-standard or ambiguous.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'occupation' query parameter returns a validation error
- Very obscure or highly specialized job titles may return low match scores or few candidates
- Ambiguous titles (e.g. 'Manager') may return many candidates with similar scores making selection difficult
- Limit parameter outside 1-25 range returns an error
- Network or service downtime returns a non-200 status

## How this service works

Resolve an occupation title to ranked SOC candidates, each with the SOC code, official title and a match score. The cheap first step before a prevailing-wage determination when only a job title is known.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) candidates matching the input occupation title. Each candidate includes the SOC code (e.g. 15-1252), the official BLS/DOL occupation title, and a numeric match score indicating relevance. Results are ordered from best to worst match, limited by the requested number of candidates (default 10, max 25).

## 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": [
      "occupation"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 25,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Maximum candidates (default 10)"
      },
      "occupation": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Occupation title to resolve"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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