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GET /v1/board

Economies ranked by unit-labour-cost growth, with wages and productivity

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/board" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/board", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/board");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/board",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Economies ranked by year-on-year unit-labour-cost growth (total economy, seasonally adjusted), with wage growth and productivity growth alongside. Unit labour cost growth is roughly wage growth minus productivity growth; rising unit labour costs are one of the clearest signals of home-grown inflation and of lost competitiveness. Each row carries its own quarter; discontinued series excluded. Quarterly year-on-year, cached a few hours.",
        "board": [
            {
                "code": "TUR",
                "name": "Türkiye",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wages_yoy": 40.47,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 3.45,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 34.73
            },
            {
                "code": "HUN",
                "name": "Hungary",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wages_yoy": 9.19,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 0.18,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 9
            },
            {
                "code": "CRI",
                "name": "Costa Rica",
                "quarter": "2025-Q1",
                "wages_yoy": 7.62,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 0.74,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 6.83
            },
            {
                "code": "POL",
                "name": "Poland",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wages_yoy": 9.61,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 2.91,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 6.51
            },
            {
                "code": "LVA",
                "name": "Latvia",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wages_yoy": 7.63,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 1.24,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 6.31
            },
            {
                "code": "GBR",
                "name": "United Kingdom",
                "quarter": "2025-Q3",
                "wages_yoy": 6.24,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 0.05,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 6.19
            },
            {
                "code": "CZE",
                "name": "Czechia",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wages_yoy": 7.64,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 1.65,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 5.89
            },
            {
                "code": "LTU",
                "name": "Lithuania",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wages_yoy": 12.08,
                "is_aggregate": false,
                "productivity_yoy": 5.97,
                "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 5.77
            },
            {
                "code": "ESP",
                "name": "Spain",
                "quarter": "2025-Q4",
                "wage
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