# Nonfarm Payroll Employment LLM Brief

> Nonfarm Payroll Employment LLM Brief is a paid API for AI agents from oracles-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns an LLM-generated narrative summary of the recent trend in US total nonfarm payroll employment

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://oracles-production.up.railway.app/v1/econ-payrolls/brief
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nonfarm-payroll-employment-llm-brief-8150dc8a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wykq7CMhRT0v5aP5i2Ci1

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 nonfarm-payroll-employment-llm-brief-8150dc8a
```

Example prompt: Give me an AI-written read on the recent trend in US nonfarm payroll employment, covering the last 30 days.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a human-readable, narrative interpretation of recent nonfarm payroll trends rather than raw data points. Prefer it over raw BLS data endpoints when the goal is to deliver an accessible summary to an end user or include it in a report. Best for agentic workflows that need economic commentary without manual analysis.

## Known failure modes

- No new payroll data in the requested window — brief may be empty or minimal
- Invalid since datetime format returns a 400 error
- Payment not completed returns a 402 error
- LLM generation failure may fall back to template-based output

## How this service works

An LLM-written read on the recent trend in total nonfarm payroll employment.

## Output

A plain-English, LLM-written narrative brief describing the recent trend in total US nonfarm payroll employment, along with metadata indicating whether it was generated by an LLM or a template and how many data changes it was based on.

## 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": {
      "since": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date-time",
       "description": "Window start (default: last 30 days)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "brief": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "generatedBy": {
       "enum": [
        "llm",
        "template"
       ],
       "type": "string"
      },
      "basedOnChanges": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nonfarm-payroll-employment-llm-brief-8150dc8a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from oracles-production.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/oracles-production.up.railway.app/llms.txt)