# zaref.dev South African National Minimum Wage

> zaref.dev South African National Minimum Wage is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Returns the current South African national minimum wage per hour including special categories, effective date, source URL, and a data freshness flag.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/minimum-wage?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-national-minimum-wage-7852897f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ug7TFKbnY9ElKvOSz6MXa

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 zaref-dev-south-african-national-minimum-wage-7852897f
```

Example prompt: What is the current South African national minimum wage per hour, including any special category rates, and when did it come into effect?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a clean, cited, machine-readable JSON of South Africa's current national minimum wage with official source provenance and a freshness indicator — particularly useful for compliance checks, payroll calculations, or legal reference where citing an authoritative source matters. Prefer over scraping government websites directly.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable if zaref.dev is down (5xx error)
- Payment not processed or x402 payment header missing/invalid returns 402 Payment Required
- Data may be temporarily stale if official source has not been re-crawled after a government update (freshness flag will indicate this)

## How this service works

South African National minimum wage (National minimum wage per hour, incl. special categories, with effective date.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing the national minimum wage per hour in South African Rand, special category wage rates (e.g. domestic workers, farm workers), the effective date of the current rates, the official government source URL, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "minimum-wage",
  "source_url": "https://labourguide.co.za/employment-condition/national-minimum-wage-increase-effective-1-march-2026",
  "effective_date": "2026-03-01"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-dev-south-african-national-minimum-wage-7852897f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from zaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/zaref.dev/llms.txt)