# OFLC Wage Area Lookup

> OFLC Wage Area Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Resolves a US location (county, city, or metro) to ranked OFLC prevailing-wage area candidates with area code, area name, and state.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/wage/areas
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/oflc-wage-area-lookup-37980593
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_dosyq-s7SMJC_bRNGCD2S

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 oflc-wage-area-lookup-37980593
```

Example prompt: What are the OFLC wage area candidates for Santa Clara County, CA? I need the area code to do a prevailing wage lookup.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint as the mandatory first step before querying prevailing wages from OFLC data — it cheaply resolves a human-readable US location to the structured area code required by wage-rate lookup APIs. Prefer this over manual OFLC web searches when automating H-1B, PERM, or other labor condition applications at scale.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous location name returns multiple low-confidence candidates requiring manual selection
- Unknown or misspelled location returns empty candidate list
- Missing required state parameter for common county names causes ambiguous results
- Non-US locations return no results

## How this service works

Resolve a US location to ranked OFLC wage-area candidates, each with the area code, area name and state. Accepts a county with state, or a city or metro name. The cheap first step to find the area code for a prevailing-wage lookup.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of OFLC wage-area candidates, each containing: an area code (used for subsequent prevailing-wage lookups), a human-readable area name, and the two-letter US state abbreviation. Multiple candidates may be returned when a location matches more than one potential wage area.

## 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",
     "properties": {
      "msa": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Metro-area name (alias of location)"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "TX",
        "CA"
       ],
       "description": "Two-letter US state"
      },
      "county": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "County name (with state)"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "City or metro-area name"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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