True hourly wage calculator API

Your-Money-or-Your-Life calculation: net job expenses and unpaid commute/prep hours off gross pay to reveal the real hourly wage: (gross-expenses)/(paidHours+unpaidHours). Answers 'what's my real hourly wage after commute', 'true wage after job expenses', 'how much do I actually earn per hour'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/calc/budget-true-hourly-wage

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

CacheNo cache

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/calc/budget-true-hourly-wage

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "grossPay": 1000,
  "paidHours": 40,
  "commuteHoursPerWeek": 10,
  "prepHoursPerWeek": 5,
  "weeklyExpenses": 50,
  "weeks": 1
}

Example response

{
  "grossPay": 1000,
  "paidHours": 40,
  "unpaidHours": 15,
  "totalHours": 55,
  "jobExpenses": 50,
  "nominalHourlyWage": 25,
  "trueHourlyWage": 17.27,
  "wageReductionPercent": 30.92,
  "breakdown": {
    "commuteHours": 10,
    "prepHours": 5,
    "expenses": 50
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "grossPay",
    "paidHours"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "grossPay": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Gross pay over the period in dollars",
      "examples": [
        1000
      ]
    },
    "paidHours": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Paid hours in the period",
      "examples": [
        40
      ]
    },
    "commuteHoursPerWeek": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Unpaid commute hours per week",
      "examples": [
        10
      ]
    },
    "prepHoursPerWeek": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Unpaid prep hours per week",
      "examples": [
        5
      ]
    },
    "weeklyExpenses": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Job-related expenses per week in dollars",
      "examples": [
        50
      ]
    },
    "weeks": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Weeks in the period (default 1)",
      "examples": [
        1
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}