> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nmbr.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Retrieve a contractor ## OpenAPI ````yaml /spec/openapi.json get /contractors/{contractor} openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Nmbr API description: API to interact with Nmbr Payroll version: 1.0.0 servers: - url: https://sandbox.nmbr.co/services/payroll security: - CompanyToken: [] tags: - name: Accounting Codes - name: Accounting Code Rules - name: Adjustments - name: Allowances - name: Allowance Line Items - name: Allowance Types - name: Async Tasks - name: Bank Accounts - name: Business Entities - name: Business Entity Verifications - name: Business Entity ROE Authorizations - name: Business Presets - name: Calculations - name: Companies - name: Contractors - name: Deductions - name: Deduction Line Items - name: Deduction Types - name: Earnings - name: Earning Line Items - name: Earning Types - name: Effective Tax Properties - name: Employees - name: Employee Benefits - name: Employee Benefit Line Items - name: Employee Benefit Types - name: Employer Benefits - name: Employer Benefit Line Items - name: Employer Benefit Types - name: Employer Statutory Withholding Line Items - name: Employer Statutory Withholding Types - name: Forms - name: Form Batches - name: Form Types - name: Holidays - name: Integrations - name: Journal Entries - name: Overtime Rates - name: Partners - name: Pay Rates - name: Pay Schedules - name: Pay Splits - name: Pay Stubs - name: Payments - name: Payrolls - name: Reimbursements - name: Reimbursement Line Items - name: Reimbursement Types - name: Remittance Accounts - name: Remittance Account Enrollments - name: Reports - name: Statutory Withholding Line Items - name: Statutory Withholding Types - name: Tags - name: Tag Groups - name: Tax Properties - name: Tax Property Templates - name: Tokens - name: Usage Records - name: Usage Summaries - name: Vacation Pay - name: Vacation Pay Settings - name: Webhooks - name: Work Assignments paths: /contractors/{contractor}: get: tags: - Contractors summary: Retrieve a contractor operationId: contractors-show parameters: - name: contractor in: path schema: type: string required: true - name: expand in: query schema: type: array items: type: string enum: - company - work_assignments required: false responses: '200': description: OK content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: id: type: string description: The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr (`"contractor"`). readOnly: true data: type: object allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contractor' anyOf: - type: object title: Default - type: object title: With company expanded properties: company: type: object properties: id: type: string description: The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Company' - type: object title: With work_assignments expanded properties: work_assignments: type: object nullable: true properties: object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr (`"list"`). readOnly: true data: type: array items: type: object properties: id: type: string description: >- The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/WorkAssignment' example: id: object: contractor data: business_name: Contractor Co first_name: John last_name: Smith middle_initial: null email: john@smith.com business_number: null sin_last_3: null external_ref: null preferred_locale: null archived_at: null created_at: '2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z' updated_at: '2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z' links: self: /contractors/ components: schemas: Contractor: type: object title: Contractor properties: business_name: type: string description: >- The contractor's business or corporation name. `null` for individual contractors. nullable: true maxLength: 255 first_name: type: string description: The contractor's first name. `null` for corporation contractors. nullable: true maxLength: 50 last_name: type: string description: The contractor's last name. `null` for corporation contractors. nullable: true maxLength: 50 middle_initial: type: string description: The contractor's middle initial. `null` for corporation contractors. nullable: true maxLength: 1 email: type: string description: The contractor's email address, used for payroll communications. nullable: true maxLength: 255 business_number: type: string description: >- The contractor's 15-character (BN15) Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) program account number, consisting of a 9-digit Business Number (BN), a 2-letter program identifier, and a 4-digit reference number. `null` for individual contractors. nullable: true maxLength: 15 sin_last_3: description: >- The last 3 digits of the contractor's Social Insurance Number (SIN). `null` if no SIN has been provided. external_ref: type: string description: >- A reference to the object in an external system, e.g. the primary key of the object in your application's database. Nmbr doesn't use, validate, parse, or require this value to be unique - it simply stores it for your reference. nullable: true maxLength: 255 preferred_locale: type: string description: >- The locale used for payroll communications sent to this contractor, such as Pay Stub emails. If not set, the Business Entity's locale is used. nullable: true enum: - en - fr archived_at: type: string description: >- The date the contractor was archived. Archiving a contractor also archives all Work Assignments that are not already archived. Archived contractors do not appear in active listings. readOnly: true nullable: true format: dateTime created_at: type: string description: The date and time the object was created in Nmbr. readOnly: true format: dateTime updated_at: type: string description: The date and time the object was last updated in Nmbr. readOnly: true format: dateTime Company: type: object title: Company properties: name: type: string description: The company's name. pay_day_movement_setting: type: string description: >- The company-level setting for how pay dates are adjusted when they fall on a weekend or bank holiday. Inherited by Business Entities and Pay Schedules whose own setting is `inherit`. enum: - inherit - next_business_day - previous_business_day external_ref: type: string description: >- A reference to the object in an external system, e.g. the primary key of the object in your application's database. Nmbr doesn't use, validate, parse, or require this value to be unique - it simply stores it for your reference. nullable: true maxLength: 255 preferred_locale: type: string description: >- The locale used for payroll communications sent to Employees and Contractors within this company. If not set, the Partner's locale is used. nullable: true enum: - en - fr created_at: type: string description: The date and time the object was created in Nmbr. readOnly: true format: dateTime updated_at: type: string description: The date and time the object was last updated in Nmbr. readOnly: true format: dateTime WorkAssignment: type: object title: Work Assignment properties: title: type: string description: >- An optional label for this work assignment, used to distinguish between multiple work assignments for the same Employee or Contractor. nullable: true maxLength: 255 title_translations: type: object description: Optional translations for the `title` property. allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Translations' nullable: true title_translated: type: string description: >- The translation of the `title` property for the request locale. Computed using the values in `title` and `title_translations` and the value of the request's `Accept-Language` header. readOnly: true employee: type: object properties: id: type: string description: The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr (`"employee"`). readOnly: true pay_schedule: type: object properties: id: type: string description: The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr (`"pay_schedule"`). readOnly: true business_entity: type: object properties: id: type: string description: The unique identifier of the object in Nmbr. readOnly: true object: type: string description: The type of the object in Nmbr (`"business_entity"`). readOnly: true current_tax_jurisdiction: type: string description: >- The current Province of Employment (POE) for the work assignment, derived from the `ca::province_of_employment` Tax Property on the work assignment or, if none is set, from the Business Entity. nullable: true is_primary: type: boolean description: >- When `true`, the standard tax reductions are applied to this work assignment's Pay Stubs. Only one work assignment per Employee per Business Entity may be primary. If none is explicitly set to primary, the earliest work assignment is treated as primary. accrued_vacation_pay: type: number description: This attribute is deprecated and will be removed. deprecated: true format: decimal paid_vacation_pay: type: number description: This attribute is deprecated and will be removed. deprecated: true format: decimal first_non_draft_period_start: type: string description: >- The start of the first pay period for which this work assignment has a non-draft Payroll. `null` if the work assignment has never appeared on an approved or paid Payroll. nullable: true format: date last_non_draft_period_end: type: string description: >- The end of the most recent pay period for which this work assignment has a non-draft Payroll. `null` if the work assignment has never appeared on an approved or paid Payroll. nullable: true format: date available_tax_properties: type: array description: >- A list of Tax Property template identifiers supported for this work assignment, based on its jurisdiction. nullable: true items: type: string external_ref: type: string description: >- A reference to the object in an external system, e.g. the primary key of the object in your application's database. Nmbr doesn't use, validate, parse, or require this value to be unique - it simply stores it for your reference. nullable: true maxLength: 255 archived_at: type: string description: >- The date the work assignment was archived. Archiving ends the work assignment's participation in future Payrolls. The archive date must not fall before any active Pay Rate's effective period. readOnly: true nullable: true format: dateTime created_at: type: string description: The date and time the object was created in Nmbr. readOnly: true format: dateTime updated_at: type: string description: The date and time the object was last updated in Nmbr. readOnly: true format: dateTime Translations: type: object nullable: true properties: en: type: string maxLength: 255 fr: type: string maxLength: 255 securitySchemes: CompanyToken: type: http scheme: bearer ````