# US Non-Farm Payrolls (FRED PAYEMS)

> US Non-Farm Payrolls (FRED PAYEMS) is a paid API for AI agents from finance-api.kdlcfa.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Returns the latest US non-farm payrolls month-over-month change in thousands of jobs, sourced from the Federal Reserve's FRED PAYEMS series

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://finance-api.kdlcfa.workers.dev/nonfarm-payrolls?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/us-non-farm-payrolls-fred-payems-ab2d4dad
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FRSFzgnBEQtUWrAR9bXYZ

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-non-farm-payrolls-fred-payems-ab2d4dad
```

Example prompt: What's the latest US non-farm payrolls number — how many jobs were added last month according to FRED's PAYEMS data?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, single-call lookup of the latest US non-farm payrolls (PAYEMS) figure without needing to set up a FRED API key yourself. Ideal for agents building macro dashboards, economic briefings, or Fed policy analysis that require the headline jobs number. Not suitable if you need historical time series, multiple labor market indicators in one call, or private-sector vs. government breakdowns.

## Known failure modes

- FRED data temporarily unavailable causing a fetch error
- Stale or cached data if FRED hasn't yet published the latest monthly release
- Payment not processed (x402 payment required before data is returned)
- Network timeout from the Cloudflare Worker to FRED upstream

## How this service works

US non-farm payrolls, month-over-month change in thousands of jobs, via FRED (PAYEMS)

## Output

Returns the latest US non-farm payrolls figure as a month-over-month change expressed in thousands of jobs, drawn from the Federal Reserve's FRED PAYEMS series. Typically includes the most recently published data point and possibly the reference period (month/year).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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   "properties": {
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    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {}
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   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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    "example": {
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  }
 }
}
```

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