Minimum Wage Skill

Overview

Minimum Wage compiles data from the Department of Labor and state labor departments. The API returns the effective minimum wage (higher of state or federal) along with state-specific rates and tipped employee minimums.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as MinimumWageSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "MinimumWageSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "state": "CA"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about CA in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for MinimumWageSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`state`Required	string	2-letter state code (e.g., CA, NY) length 2–2
`year`OptionalPremium	number	Year to get minimum wage for (e.g., 2020). Defaults to current year.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "state": "CA",
    "stateName": "California",
    "year": 2026,
    "minimumWage": 16.9,
    "stateRate": 16.9,
    "federalRate": 7.25,
    "tippedMinimum": null,
    "usesFederalRate": false,
    "aboveFederal": true,
    "federalDifference": 9.65,
    "annualIncome40hrs": 35152,
    "note": null,
    "formatted": {
      "minimumWage": "$16.90/hr",
      "annualIncome": "$35,152.00"
    }
  }
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`state`	string	`CA`	Two-letter state code (e.g., CA, NY)
`stateName`	string	`California`	Full state name
`year`	number	`2026`	Year the minimum wage data is for
`minimumWage`	number	`16.9`	Effective minimum wage for the state
`stateRate`	number	`16.9`	State-specific minimum wage rate
`federalRate`	number	`7.25`	Federal minimum wage rate
`tippedMinimum`	object	`null`	Minimum wage for tipped employees
`usesFederalRate`	boolean	`false`	Whether state uses federal minimum as effective rate
`aboveFederal`	boolean	`true`	Whether state rate exceeds federal minimum wage
`federalDifference`	number	`9.65`	Difference between state and federal minimum wage
`annualIncome40hrs`Premium	number	`35152`	Annual income at 40 hours per week
`note`	object	`null`	Additional notes or context about the wage
`formatted`	object	`{…}`	Minimum wage and annual income as dollar strings
`formatted.minimumWage`	string	`$16.90/hr`	Formatted minimum wage with currency symbol
`formatted.annualIncome`Premium	string	`$35,152.00`	Formatted annual income with currency and comma separation

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

HR Compliance: Ensure wage compliance with current federal and state minimum wage laws
Payroll Systems: Integrate current minimum wage rates into payroll and HR systems
Business Planning: Factor minimum wage costs into business planning and location decisions
Policy Research: Compare minimum wage rates across states for policy analysis

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