# US Labor Market Data (BLS): Unemployment, Nonfarm Payrolls & Hourly Earnings

> US Labor Market Data (BLS): Unemployment, Nonfarm Payrolls & Hourly Earnings is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Returns US unemployment rate, nonfarm payroll employment with monthly job change, and average hourly earnings with year-over-year growth, sourced from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/empleo-eeuu-pago?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-labor-market-data-bls-unemployment-nonfarm-payrolls-hourly-earnings-31ec0a17
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_tXfElk-0fLM20yRHzP-NM

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 us-labor-market-data-bls-unemployment-nonfarm-payrolls-hourly-earnings-31ec0a17 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest US labor market stats for the past 6 months — unemployment rate, nonfarm payrolls with monthly job change, and average hourly earnings with annual growth, all from the BLS.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official US labor market statistics directly from the BLS — especially the three core indicators (unemployment rate, nonfarm payrolls, average hourly earnings) — and want up to 24 months of historical monthly data in a single call. Prefer this over web scraping or unofficial sources when accuracy and public-domain provenance matter for economic analysis, dashboards, or reporting.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid 'meses' value (outside 1-24 range) may return an error or default behavior
- BLS data may have a reporting lag of 2-4 weeks after the reference month
- Network or upstream BLS API outage may result in empty or stale data
- Payment failure (x402) if insufficient USDC balance

## How this service works

US labor market: unemployment rate, nonfarm payrolls with monthly job change, and average hourly earnings with annual growth. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, public domain.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with three time series arrays (unemployment rate by month, nonfarm payroll employment with monthly change by month, average hourly earnings index with year-over-year growth by month) plus a 'ultimo' object with the most recent data point for each indicator, and a source attribution string ('U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics').

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "meses": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "1-24 (default 12)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "paro": [
   {
    "mes": "2026-04",
    "tasa_pct": 4.3
   },
   {
    "mes": "2026-05",
    "tasa_pct": 4.3
   }
  ],
  "fuente": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
  "ultimo": {
   "paro": {
    "mes": "2026-09",
    "tasa_pct": 4.2
   },
   "nominas": {
    "mes": "2026-09",
    "empleo_miles": 159044,
    "variacion_mes_miles": 29
   },
   "salario_hora": {
    "mes": "2026-09",
    "indice": 37.81,
    "interanual_pct": 3.02
   }
  },
  "nominas": [
   {
    "mes": "2026-04",
    "empleo_miles": 158798,
    "variacion_mes_miles": 148
   },
   {
    "mes": "2026-05",
    "empleo_miles": 158861,
    "variacion_mes_miles": 63
   }
  ],
  "salario_hora": [
   {
    "mes": "2026-04",
    "indice": 37.41,
    "interanual_pct": 3.57
   },
   {
    "mes": "2026-05",
    "indice": 37.49,
    "interanual_pct": 3.34
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

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