Merit increase budget calculator API

Compute merit budget percent = (merit pool / total payroll) x 100 and, when eligible headcount is given, the average increase per employee. Deterministic comp-planning math. Answers 'what's our merit budget percent','average raise per employee','merit spread on a $250k pool over $5M payroll'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/calc/hr-merit-budget

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

CacheNo cache

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/calc/hr-merit-budget

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "meritPool": 250000,
  "totalPayroll": 5000000,
  "eligibleEmployees": 100
}

Example response

{
  "meritPool": 250000,
  "totalPayroll": 5000000,
  "meritBudgetPercent": 5,
  "avgIncreasePerEmployee": 2500
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "meritPool",
    "totalPayroll"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "meritPool": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Total merit increase pool in dollars",
      "examples": [
        250000
      ]
    },
    "totalPayroll": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Total annual payroll in dollars",
      "examples": [
        5000000
      ]
    },
    "eligibleEmployees": {
      "type": "number",
      "default": 0,
      "examples": [
        100
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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