# US Labor Market Macro Time-Series

> US Labor Market Macro Time-Series is a paid API for AI agents from marketdata.use.x402atlas.com, paid per call via x402, $0.015/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns US labor market macro time-series data including unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, average hourly earnings, and job openings.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://marketdata.use.x402atlas.com/labor-market
- Price: $0.015/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-labor-market-macro-time-series-d48274ea
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LgDza6s1TiaYimPRYSKMf

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-macro-time-series-d48274ea
```

Example prompt: Pull me the US labor market data — unemployment rate, participation rate, average hourly earnings, and job openings — from 2023-01-01 to 2024-12-31, up to 100 observations.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official US labor market macro indicators — unemployment rate, participation rate, average hourly earnings, or job openings — as time-series data, especially for economic research, dashboard building, or macro analysis. Prefer this over general financial data endpoints when the focus is specifically on labor-side macro variables rather than equity prices or yield curves.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid date format returns a 400 bad request error
- Date range with no available data returns empty results
- Exceeding rate limits or payment failure returns a 402 Payment Required
- Malformed query parameters may return a 400 or 422 validation error
- Very large limit values may be capped or cause slow responses

## How this service works

US labor market — unemployment rate, participation, average hourly earnings and job openings, macro time-series.

## Output

A time-series of US labor market observations including unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, average hourly earnings, and job openings, filtered by the requested date range and limited to the specified number of records.

## 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": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 50000,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max observations returned"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "queried_at",
      "series",
      "count",
      "observations"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "count": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Number of observations returned."
      },
      "series": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Which macro series this response is for."
      },
      "queried_at": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date-time",
       "description": "UTC timestamp when this bridge queried the upstream."
      },
      "observations": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": "Raw upstream observations for the series, passed through as reported (shape varies by series)."
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 1,
  "series": "labor-market",
  "queried_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00Z",
  "observations": [
   {
    "date": "2024-12-01",
    "job_openings": 8098,
    "unemployment_rate": 4.2,
    "avg_hourly_earnings": 35.06
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

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