# zaref Net Salary Calculator (South Africa)

> zaref Net Salary Calculator (South Africa) is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Calculates South African net (take-home) salary from a gross monthly income, applying PAYE tax tables, UIF, and other statutory deductions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: HEAD https://zaref.dev/calc/net-salary?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/zaref-net-salary-calculator-south-africa-8a171dea
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QHN9VgCnmsFP3G0w7DPgI

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-net-salary-calculator-south-africa-8a171dea -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What will my take-home pay be if I earn R35,000 gross per month in South Africa and I'm 32 years old?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, cited, up-to-date South African PAYE net salary computation without building your own tax logic. It's ideal for AI agents serving South African users who need payroll breakdowns, job-offer comparisons, or budgeting figures grounded in current SARS tables.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid 'monthly' query parameter returns an error
- Age parameter out of plausible range may produce unexpected rebate calculations
- Stale tax tables if API data is not yet updated after a new SARS budget
- HEAD method returns no response body — callers needing actual computed values should use GET instead

## How this service works

South African reference data as clean, cited JSON: fuel prices, interest rates, FX and bond yields, tax tables, tariffs, wages and grants, live government tenders and crypto prices, plus calculators. Built for AI agents and applications.

## Output

Returns computed net salary figures including take-home pay amount, PAYE tax liability, UIF contribution, applicable tax rebates, and effective tax rate, all derived from South African SARS tax tables and statutory rates.

## 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": [
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "age": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "monthly": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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