> ## 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. # Update an employee ## OpenAPI ````yaml /spec/openapi.json put /employees/{employee} 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: /employees/{employee}: put: tags: - Employees summary: Update an employee operationId: employees-update parameters: - name: employee in: path schema: type: string required: true requestBody: content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: employee_number: type: string description: >- An optional identifier for the employee within the partner's system, such as a badge number or HR system ID. Distinct from `id` and `external_ref`. nullable: true maxLength: 40 first_name: type: string description: The employee's first name. maxLength: 50 last_name: type: string description: The employee's last name. maxLength: 50 middle_initial: type: string description: The employee's middle initial. nullable: true maxLength: 1 personal_email: type: string description: >- The employee's personal email address, used as the primary address for payroll communications such as Pay Stub emails. nullable: true work_email: type: string description: >- The employee's work email address. Used for payroll communications if `personal_email` is not set. nullable: true address_line_1: type: string description: >- The first line of the employee's mailing address. Canada Revenue Agency forms (T4, RL-1) truncate this to the length those forms allow. nullable: true address_line_2: type: string description: >- The second line of the employee's mailing address. Canada Revenue Agency forms (T4, RL-1) truncate this to the length those forms allow. nullable: true city: type: string description: The city of the employee's mailing address. nullable: true administrative_area: type: string description: >- The region of the employee's mailing address — the province, state, or county, depending on the country. For Canadian employees this is the Province of Residence (POR), not the Province of Employment (POE) or Province of Work (POW). POE and POW are configured via the Work Assignment's Tax Properties. nullable: true maxLength: 255 province_code: type: string description: >- This attribute is deprecated and will be removed. A deprecated alias of `administrative_area` that mirrors its value. Use `administrative_area` instead. In Canada, must be an uppercase 2-letter province code: `AB`, `BC`, `MB`, `NB`, `NL`, `NS`, `NT`, `NU`, `ON`, `PE`, `QC`, `SK`, `YT` nullable: true deprecated: true country_code: type: string description: The country code for the employee's mailing address. enum: - CA - GB postal_code: type: string description: The postal code for the employee's mailing address. nullable: true maxLength: 10 sin: type: string description: >- The employee's Social Insurance Number (SIN), used for tax reporting. date_of_birth: type: string description: The employee's date of birth. format: date external_ref: type: string maxLength: 255 preferred_locale: type: string description: >- The locale used for payroll communications sent to this employee, such as Pay Stub emails. If not set, the Business Entity's locale is used. enum: - en - fr archived_at: type: string description: >- The date the employee was archived. Archiving an employee also archives all Work Assignments that are not already archived. Archived employees do not appear in active listings. format: date example: employee_number: '001' first_name: Marley last_name: Prosacco personal_email: marley.prosacco@personal.test work_email: mprosacco@work.test address_line_1: Angelina Ridge city: Toronto administrative_area: 'ON' country_code: CA postal_code: M1M1M1 sin: '196710156' date_of_birth: '1985-01-20' 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 (`"employee"`). readOnly: true data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Employee' example: id: object: employee data: company: id: object: company links: self: /companies/ employee_number: '001' first_name: Marley last_name: Prosacco middle_initial: null personal_email: marley.prosacco@personal.test work_email: mprosacco@work.test address_line_1: Angelina Ridge address_line_2: null city: Toronto administrative_area: 'ON' province_code: 'ON' country_code: CA postal_code: M1M1M1 sin: '196710156' sin_last_3: '156' date_of_birth: '1985-01-20' warnings: object: list data: - object: warning data: namespace: onboarding type: bank_account_doesnt_exists 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: /employees/ components: schemas: Employee: type: object title: Employee 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 (`"company"`). readOnly: true employee_number: type: string description: >- An optional identifier for the employee within the partner's system, such as a badge number or HR system ID. Distinct from `id` and `external_ref`. nullable: true maxLength: 40 first_name: type: string description: The employee's first name. maxLength: 50 last_name: type: string description: The employee's last name. maxLength: 50 middle_initial: type: string description: The employee's middle initial. nullable: true maxLength: 1 personal_email: type: string description: >- The employee's personal email address, used as the primary address for payroll communications such as Pay Stub emails. nullable: true maxLength: 255 work_email: type: string description: >- The employee's work email address. Used for payroll communications if `personal_email` is not set. nullable: true maxLength: 255 address_line_1: type: string description: >- The first line of the employee's mailing address. Canada Revenue Agency forms (T4, RL-1) truncate this to the length those forms allow. nullable: true maxLength: 255 address_line_2: type: string description: >- The second line of the employee's mailing address. Canada Revenue Agency forms (T4, RL-1) truncate this to the length those forms allow. nullable: true maxLength: 255 city: type: string description: The city of the employee's mailing address. nullable: true maxLength: 255 administrative_area: type: string description: >- The region of the employee's mailing address — the province, state, or county, depending on the country. For Canadian employees this is the Province of Residence (POR), not the Province of Employment (POE) or Province of Work (POW). POE and POW are configured via the Work Assignment's Tax Properties. nullable: true maxLength: 255 province_code: type: string description: >- This attribute is deprecated and will be removed. A deprecated alias of `administrative_area` that mirrors its value. Use `administrative_area` instead. nullable: true deprecated: true country_code: type: string description: The country code for the employee's mailing address. nullable: true maxLength: 2 enum: - CA - GB postal_code: type: string description: The postal code for the employee's mailing address. nullable: true maxLength: 10 sin: type: string description: >- This attribute is deprecated and will be removed. The employee's Social Insurance Number (SIN), used for tax reporting. If you only need the last 3 digits for display purposes, use `sin_last_3` instead. If you need the complete SIN, use the `/employees/:id/reveal` endpoint instead. Note the `/reveal` endpoint can only reveal one employee at a time and is rate-limited for security reasons. nullable: true deprecated: true sin_last_3: type: string description: >- The last 3 digits of the employee's Social Insurance Number (SIN). `null` if no SIN has been provided. nullable: true date_of_birth: type: string description: The employee's date of birth. nullable: true format: date warnings: type: object description: >- A collection of data validation warnings for this employee. Warnings indicate incomplete or potentially incorrect data and could prevent payroll processing. nullable: true properties: object: type: string nullable: true data: type: array nullable: true items: type: object properties: object: type: string nullable: true data: type: object nullable: true properties: namespace: type: string nullable: true type: type: string nullable: true 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 employee, 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 employee was archived. Archiving an employee also archives all Work Assignments that are not already archived. Archived employees 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 securitySchemes: CompanyToken: type: http scheme: bearer ````