Service metadata

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/labourcosts-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "note": "board and wages take countries_only (true to drop aggregates such as OECD, G20, the euro area). country takes country (ISO-3 code or name, required). meta takes no parameters. Growth figures are year-on-year, in percent. Quarterly data (it lags a quarter or two); a multi-hour protective cache fronts the OECD upstream.",
        "source": "OECD Productivity & Unit Labour Costs (DF_PDB_ULC_Q: ULCE, LCEMP, GDPEMP) via OECD SDMX API, year-on-year, seasonally adjusted, live, keyless",
        "service": "labourcosts-api",
        "economies": 33,
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/board": "Economies ranked by unit-labour-cost growth, with wages and productivity (countries_only optional).",
            "GET /v1/wages": "Economies ranked by wage growth (compensation per employee).",
            "GET /v1/country": "One economy's unit-labour-cost, wage and productivity growth with the decomposition (country=USA)."
        },
        "description": "Unit labour costs, wages & productivity — the labour-cost side of inflation and competitiveness, live from the OECD (no key). It serves the year-on-year growth of unit labour costs, labour compensation per employee (wages) and labour productivity, bound by the identity that unit labour cost growth is roughly wage growth minus productivity growth. board ranks economies by unit-labour-cost growth with wages and productivity alongside; wages ranks by wage growth; country gives one economy's three figures with the decomposition. The labour-cost / wage-inflation cut — distinct from the realised-inflation feeds, the employment and unemployment boards (counts and rates, not costs), and the generic data aggregator.",
        "united_states": {
            "quarter": "2025-Q3",
            "wages_yoy": 3.36,
            "productivity_yoy": 1.16,
            "unit_labour_costs_yoy": 2.18
        },
        "upstream_status": "ok"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-12T19:36:31.212Z",
        "request_id": "5de779e7-b73e-4779-a354-3e72d89a24dd"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}