# US Labor Statistics (BLS)

> US Labor Statistics (BLS) is a paid API for AI agents from agentdatum.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Retrieves US Bureau of Labor Statistics employment, unemployment, and wage data without requiring an API key.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentdatum.com/api/v1/d/us-labor?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-labor-statistics-bls-64dbca20
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XH3rWrGmMsS17cXyepN92

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-statistics-bls-64dbca20
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest US unemployment rate and wage data from the BLS for me?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need quick, no-registration access to official US government labor market data (BLS) including employment, unemployment, and wage statistics. Ideal for macroeconomic dashboards, research agents, or financial analysis workflows that need authoritative US labor data at low cost without managing BLS API keys.

## Known failure modes

- BLS upstream API unavailable or rate-limited — returns error or empty response
- Network timeout if BLS data source is slow to respond
- Payment of $0.01 USDC not processed correctly via x402 protocol — returns 402 status
- Malformed query parameters result in empty or error response

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns US Bureau of Labor Statistics labor market data including employment levels, unemployment rate, and wage/salary figures aggregated from BLS v1 API, structured as JSON.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "raw": {
   "latest": {
    "year": "2026",
    "value": "16933",
    "latest": "true",
    "period": "M06",
    "footnotes": [
     {
      "code": "P",
      "text": "Preliminary."
     }
    ],
    "periodName": "June"
   },
   "recent": [
    {
     "year": "2026",
     "value": "16933",
     "period": "M06"
    },
    {
     "year": "2026",
     "value": "16933",
     "period": "M06"
    }
   ],
   "series": "LAUCN040010000000005"
  },
  "_error": "HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable",
  "_stale": true,
  "source": "bls",
  "data_type": "人力资源",
  "collected_at": "2026-08-08T12:05:22Z"
 }
}
```

## More

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