Answers

Cost to employ: statutory contributions priced line by line (employee + employer), with refused schemes named

Prices a gross salary against statutory contributions: employee and employer lines, total employer cost, and unpriceable schemes listed (unknown, not zero). No income tax. Countries: DE, ES, GB, IT, PL; others refused free (422).

post/v1/answers/employment-cost

Request

  • Base URL: https://euroref.dev
  • URL: https://euroref.dev/v1/answers/employment-cost
  • Auth: one of:
    • API key in header PAYMENT-SIGNATURE
    • API key in header X-PAYMENT
    • API key in header X-API-Key

Headers

X-Free-Trial'1'

Opt in to the free trial (3 calls/day/IP).

Request body

country'de' | 'es' | 'gb' | 'it' | 'pl' required

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 limited to this brand's overlap with the costed contribution set (DE, ES, GB, IT, PL). Any other country is refused FREE (422).

grossnumber required

Gross pay in local currency

period'month' | 'year'

Period the gross covers (default month)

subdivisionstring

Optional ISO 3166-2 code where a region runs its own schedule (e.g. CA-QC, DE-SN, AU-NF). Unknown codes refused FREE with the available list.

nationality'national' | 'gcc' | 'expat'

Required in the Gulf: pension reach depends on nationality

contract'indefinite' | 'fixed_term'

Selects unemployment / fixed-term surcharge rates where they differ

workplace_pensionboolean

Auto-enrolment (GB) / PPK (PL); both opt-out, default true

childless_over_23boolean

Germany: employee long-term-care surcharge

children_under_25number

Germany: per-child care-rate reduction

zusatzbeitrag_ratenumber

Germany: sickness-fund supplement rate (no national figure)

receiptboolean

Optional. Default false. When true, a paid HTTP 200 embeds an Ed25519-signed receipt (kind answer_receipt) the caller can file and later verify at /certified/public-key. Included in this answer's existing price — no extra charge. The field is omitted on unpaid 402 and on free 4xx refusals. This is not a series certified extract: GET /v1/certified/{country}/{series} is a different artifact, with its own price.

Response

Employee and employer contribution lines, employer_cost, refused schemes with reasons, citations. Optional property receipt (schema AnswerReceipt, kind answer_receipt) is present only when the request set receipt:true and this response is a paid HTTP 200. Unpaid 402 and free 4xx refusals do not include receipt. Not a series certified extract (GET /v1/certified/{country}/{series}).

confidence_label'high' | 'medium' | 'low'

Derived from source type, verification age, stale. Rules: /label-rules

coverage_label'ready' | 'partial' | 'gap'

ready=complete, partial=limited, gap=no number. Rules: /label-rules

label_basisobject

Inputs and rule ids behind both labels

Example response

{
  "receipt": {
    "kind": "answer_receipt",
    "receipt_id": "0123456789abcdef01234567",
    "answer": "vat",
    "request": {
      "country": "za",
      "amount": 100,
      "mode": "add",
      "receipt": true
    },
    "result": {
      "status": "ok"
    },
    "cited_series": [
      {
        "country": "za",
        "series_id": "vat",
        "value": null,
        "last_confirmed": "2026-04-01",
        "source_url": null,
        "source_sha256": null
      }
    ],
    "issued_at": "2026-09-25T15:45:00.000Z",
    "limitations": [
      "This receipt is not a series certified extract (GET /v1/certified/{country}/{series}).",
      "This receipt is not legal advice. It only covers the computation over the cited series as of each series' last_confirmed."
    ],
    "signature": {
      "alg": "Ed25519",
      "key_id": "<same key_id as /certified/public-key>",
      "public_key": "https://example.invalid/certified/public-key",
      "signed_payload": "canonical JSON of answer_receipt: keys sorted recursively, no whitespace (see /certified/public-key)",
      "value": "<base64>"
    }
  }
}

Changes

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