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zaref Wage Check – South African Minimum Wage Compliance Calculator
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zaref Wage Check – South African Minimum Wage Compliance Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).
Checks whether a given hourly or monthly wage meets South African national minimum wage requirements for standard, farm, domestic, or EPWP workers
Price / call$0.05
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How this service works
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Output
Returns a compliance result indicating whether the supplied wage meets South Africa's current national minimum wage for the specified worker category, including the applicable minimum rate, any shortfall or surplus, and the relevant legal reference.
Example use cases
HR payroll compliance audit
“I'm setting up payroll for a new hire in South Africa — they'll work 45 hours a week and earn R6,500 a month. Can you check if that meets the national minimum wage for a standard worker?”
Domestic worker wage check
“Is R22 per hour enough for a domestic worker under South African labour law? I want to make sure I'm paying legally.”
Farm worker minimum wage validation
“We're paying our farm workers R15 per hour. Does that comply with South Africa's minimum wage requirements for farm workers?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://zaref.dev/v1/answers/wage-check?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a fast, authoritative compliance check against South Africa's current national minimum wage for a specific worker category (standard, farm, domestic, or EPWP). It is purpose-built for South African labour law and returns clean, cited JSON — prefer it over generic web search or manual lookups when you need machine-readable, up-to-date compliance verdicts integrated into payroll, HR, or agent workflows.
Side effects
- Missing required input: if neither hourly_rate nor monthly_wage+hours_per_week is provided, the API returns a validation error
- Invalid worker_type value: supplying an unrecognised category string returns an error
- monthly_wage supplied without hours_per_week causes an incomplete calculation error
- Stale data risk: minimum wage figures may lag behind the most recent government gazette update
- Payment failure: x402 micropayment not completed results in 402 response and no data returned
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| hourly_raterequired | number | number, optional: wage in ZAR per hour (or supply monthly_wage + hours_per_week) |
| worker_type | string | standard (default) | farm | domestic | epwp |
| monthly_wage | number | number, optional: gross monthly wage in ZAR |
| hours_per_week | number | number, optional: ordinary weekly hours, must accompany monthly_wage |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "object"
}Tags
x402
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