# PayScale Median Salary Lookup by Job Title

> PayScale Median Salary Lookup by Job Title is a paid API for AI agents from api.jobsproperty-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Returns the US median annual salary for a given job title from PayScale, along with related career-path roles and their compensation figures.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.jobsproperty-api.workers.dev/api/jobs/payscale?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/payscale-median-salary-lookup-by-job-title-bae16d1f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3a1bBwmTFAXysq7z6nB2Q

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 payscale-median-salary-lookup-by-job-title-bae16d1f
```

Example prompt: What does PayScale say the median annual salary is for a Data_Scientist in the US, and what are the related career-path roles with their pay?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need US median salary data specifically from PayScale's published research, including related career-path role compensation. Prefer this over generic job posting salary data when you want a single authoritative median figure with career progression context rather than a range from live job listings.

## Known failure modes

- Job title not found on PayScale (invalid or misspelled title format) — returns empty or error response
- Job title passed in wrong format (spaces instead of underscores, wrong capitalization) — may fail to match PayScale URL
- PayScale page structure changes may cause scraping failures — stale or missing data
- Rate limiting or upstream PayScale access issues — service unavailable response
- Network timeout from the Cloudflare Workers proxy

## How this service works

US median pay for a job title from PayScale's public salary research page: the title's compensation (USD, annual) and the related career-path roles with their pay. Pass the title as PayScale writes it in its URL, e.g. Software_Engineer. Figures are PayScale's published estimates.

## Output

A JSON object containing the normalized job title, the PayScale source URL, the currency (USD), whether pay is hourly or annual, the timestamp of the data check, the number of PayScale reviews, the median annual compensation in USD, and an array of related career-path roles each with their title, PayScale URL, currency, and median compensation.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "job"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "job": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Job title as in the PayScale URL, e.g. Software_Engineer (letters, digits, underscores)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "job": "Software Engineer",
  "source": "https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Salary",
  "currency": "USD",
  "isHourly": false,
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:36:49.255Z",
  "reviewCount": 918,
  "compensation": 85679,
  "relatedRoles": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Senior_Software_Engineer/Salary",
    "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
    "currency": "USD",
    "compensation": 116774
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Sr._Software_Engineer_%2F_Developer_%2F_Programmer/Salary",
    "title": "Sr. Software Engineer / Developer / Programmer",
    "currency": "USD",
    "compensation": 104281
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

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