---
title: "Update an employment"
method: PATCH
path: "/v1/people/{person_id}/employments/{id}"
tags: ["People"]
---

# Update an employment

`PATCH /v1/people/{person_id}/employments/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.slant.app`
- URL: `https://api.slant.app/v1/people/{person_id}/employments/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Update an existing employment record for a person

## Request body

- object
  - `business_name` string
  - `role` string
  - `start_date` string, date
  - `end_date` string, date
  - `actively_employed` boolean

## Response `200`

employment updated

- Employment
  - `id` string: The employment ID
  - `person_id` string: The person ID
  - `business_id` string, nullable: Linked employer Business ID, when available
  - `business_name` string, required
  - `role` string, nullable
  - `start_date` string, date, nullable
  - `end_date` string, date, nullable
  - `actively_employed` boolean

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request - malformed JSON, invalid filters, or missing required book context
- `401`: unauthorized - missing or invalid token
- `403`: Access denied. Policy and membership failures may have an empty body. A read-only personal token cannot perform writes.
- `429`: An hourly API rate limit was exceeded. Wait Retry-After seconds before retrying.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `173c41bf6be9`: 5 info
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `403`
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
  - added the optional property `business_id` to the response with the `200` status
  - removed the `invalid_json` enum value from the `error` response property for the response status `400`
  - …1 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/slant/apis/slant-public-api-v1/changes/v1/people/:person_id/employments/:id/patch.md)

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