# Nero Labs US Minimum Wage Lookup > Nero Labs US Minimum Wage Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22). Returns the legally applicable hourly minimum wage at a US address or state/city/county on a given date, including federal, state, county, and city rates, tipped wages, industry-specific rates, and upcoming scheduled changes. ## Facts - Endpoint: GET https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/rules/us-minimum-wage?utm_source=zero.xyz - Price: $0.003/call - Payment: x402 - Status: unknown - Last checked: 2026-10-22 - Activations on Zero: 0 - Tags: x402 - Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nero-labs-us-minimum-wage-lookup-b1affc7d - Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vBW_QTkiMycEKi-QAw1MD 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 nero-labs-us-minimum-wage-lookup-b1affc7d ``` Example prompt: What's the legally applicable minimum wage — including any city or county rates — for a fast food worker at 100 N Main St, Los Angeles, CA on July 1, 2025, and when is the next scheduled change? ## When to prefer this Use this endpoint when you need the authoritative, jurisdiction-resolved minimum wage for a specific US location, including city and county overrides above state and federal floors. It is especially valuable for payroll systems, job offer generation, compliance checks, and HR tools that need the highest applicable rate plus tipped wage and industry-specific rates in a single call, rather than manually reconciling federal, state, and local ordinances. ## Known failure modes - Address not resolvable by US Census geocoder — returns error or falls back to state-level rate - State code not recognized — returns validation error - No data available for a very new or unannounced future rate — returns best available estimate - Industry string not matched to a known special rate — treated as general rate - Ambiguous jurisdiction (e.g. city straddles county lines) — returns highest applicable rate with explanation of what it depends on ## How this service works Pay-per-call tools for AI agents, 31 in all: read web pages and RSS feeds, OCR, PDF text, transcription; email, phone and domain checks; UK, Irish and Polish company lookups and UK risk reports; website contacts, tech stack and SEO audits; PageSpeed; AI review, job post and row enrichment; data cleaning, joins, dedupe and diffs; US and EU compliance rules. No account or API key: pay each call in USDC on Base over x402. ## Output A JSON object containing the resolved minimum wage hourly rate, which jurisdiction sets it (federal/state/county/city), tipped cash wage, a breakdown of all applicable rates by level with source URLs, upcoming scheduled changes with effective dates, the matched address, and a disclaimer that this is information not legal advice. ## 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" ], "type": "string" }, "queryParams": { "type": "object", "properties": { "city": { "type": "string", "description": "City name, for example \"Seattle\". Optional." }, "date": { "type": "string", "description": "Date the work is done, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today. Future dates use rates already scheduled or announced." }, "state": { "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter state code or name. Needed when no address is given." }, "county": { "type": "string", "description": "County name, for example \"Montgomery County\". Optional." }, "address": { "type": "string", "description": "US street address, for example \"100 N Main St, Los Angeles, CA\". Resolved with the US Census Bureau geocoder." }, "industry": { "type": "string", "description": "Optional, for example \"fast food\", \"hotel\", \"healthcare\". Used to flag special industry rates." }, "employer_size": { "type": "integer", "description": "Number of employees. Some places set different rates by employer size. Optional." }, "annual_revenue": { "type": "number", "description": "Employer annual gross sales or receipts in US dollars. A few states (Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana) set a lower rate below a threshold. Optional." } }, "additionalProperties": false } }, "additionalProperties": false }, "output": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string" }, "example": { "type": "object", "properties": { "date": { "type": "string" }, "from": { "type": "string" }, "rule": { "type": "string" }, "notes": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "set_by": { "type": "string" }, "location": { "type": "object", "properties": { "city": { "type": "string" }, "input": { … (truncated) ``` ## Response schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "json", "example": { "date": "2027-01-01", "set_by": "District of Columbia (state)", "location": { "city": "Washington", "input": "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC", "state": "DC", "county": "District of Columbia", "state_name": "District of Columbia", "matched_address": "1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC, 20500" }, "breakdown": [ { "level": "federal", "hourly": 7.25, "source": "https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage", "applies_to": "covered employers", "tipped_cash": 2.13, "jurisdiction": "Federal (FLSA)", "in_force_since": "2009-07-24", "applies_for_sure": true } ], "disclaimer": "Information, not legal advice. Built from primary government sources (linked per figure); check the source before acting on a close call.", "answer_type": "exact", "_example_note": "Real output, trimmed: long lists cut to their first items and long text shortened.", "upcoming_changes": [], "minimum_wage_hourly": 18.4, "tipped_minimum_cash_wage_hourly": 10.3 } } ``` ## More - Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nero-labs-us-minimum-wage-lookup-b1affc7d/health.json - [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt) - [Other services from x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/llms.txt)