> ## 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. # Create a pay rate ## OpenAPI ````yaml /spec/openapi.json post /pay_rates 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: /pay_rates: post: tags: - Pay Rates summary: Create a pay rate operationId: pay-rates-store requestBody: content: application/json: schema: allOf: - type: object properties: work_assignment_id: type: string description: >- Must belong to a work assignment associated with an entity of type Employee. title: type: string description: >- Required unless the business preset referenced by `business_preset_id` already has a title. Either the pay rate or its preset must have one. nullable: true maxLength: 255 title_translations: type: object description: Optional translations for the `title` property. allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Translations' nullable: true has_business_preset: type: boolean business_preset_id: type: string type: type: string description: >- Whether this is a `salary` or `hourly` pay rate. Determines how `rate` is interpreted. Must be present when `business_preset_id` is either empty or not set. enum: - hourly - salary rate: type: number description: >- The annual salary when `type` is `salary`, or the hourly wage when `type` is `hourly`. For `salary` pay rates, `rate` is the annual salary (i.e. amount per year). For `wage` pay rates, `rate` is the hourly wage (i.e. amount per hour). format: decimal minimum: 0 maximum: 9999999 expected_hours_per_week: type: number description: >- The expected number of working hours per week. Must be greater than `0` for `salary` pay rates. Used to calculate the equivalent hourly rate from salaries for overtime. format: decimal minimum: 0 maximum: 168 effective_from: type: string description: >- The date from which this pay rate is applied to Pay Stubs. format: date effective_to: type: string description: >- The date after which this pay rate is no longer applied and can no longer be used to create Earning Line Items. `null` if the pay rate applies indefinitely. format: date expense_accounting_code_id: type: string liability_accounting_code_id: type: string external_ref: type: string maxLength: 255 tag_assignment: type: object properties: unit: type: string enum: - percentage is_component_locked: type: boolean tag_allocations: type: array items: type: object properties: tags: type: array items: type: string value: type: number format: decimal minimum: 0 - type: object required: - work_assignment_id - rate - expected_hours_per_week - effective_from example: work_assignment_id: title: Marketing Manager type: hourly rate: '15' expected_hours_per_week: '40' effective_from: '2026-01-01' tag_assignment: unit: percentage tag_allocations: - tags: - value: 100 responses: '201': description: Created 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 (`"pay_rate"`). readOnly: true data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PayRate' example: id: object: pay_rate data: work_assignment: id: object: work_assignment links: self: /work_assignments/ title: Marketing Manager title_translations: null title_translated: Marketing Manager type: hourly rate: 15 expected_hours_per_week: 40 is_editable: true is_deletable: true effective_from: '2026-01-01' earliest_valid_effective_to: '2026-01-01' effective_to: null business_preset: null expense_accounting_code: null liability_accounting_code: null external_ref: null created_at: '2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z' updated_at: '2026-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z' links: self: /pay_rates/ components: schemas: Translations: type: object nullable: true properties: en: type: string maxLength: 255 fr: type: string maxLength: 255 PayRate: type: object title: Pay Rate properties: work_assignment: 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 (`"work_assignment"`). readOnly: true title: type: string 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 type: type: string description: >- Whether this is a `salary` or `hourly` pay rate. Determines how `rate` is interpreted. enum: - hourly - salary rate: type: number description: >- The annual salary when `type` is `salary`, or the hourly wage when `type` is `hourly`. format: decimal expected_hours_per_week: type: number description: >- The expected number of working hours per week. Must be greater than `0` for `salary` pay rates. Used to calculate the equivalent hourly rate from salaries for overtime. format: decimal is_editable: type: boolean description: >- Whether the pay rate's `type`, `rate`, and `effective_from` can be modified. Once the pay rate has been used on a non-draft Payroll, these fields are locked. is_deletable: type: boolean description: >- Whether the pay rate can be deleted. A pay rate may not be deleted once it has been used on a non-draft Payroll. effective_from: type: string description: The date from which this pay rate is applied to Pay Stubs. format: date earliest_valid_effective_to: type: string description: >- The earliest date that `effective_to` may be set to, based on the most recent non-draft Payroll period in which this pay rate was active. format: date effective_to: type: string description: >- The date after which this pay rate is no longer applied and can no longer be used to create Earning Line Items. `null` if the pay rate applies indefinitely. nullable: true format: date business_preset: {} expense_accounting_code: {} liability_accounting_code: {} 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 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 ````