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Justworks Members API

Read employee, contractor, and member information from the Justworks Partner API. Provides access tomember profiles, employment history, pay history, custom-field values, and U.S. tax identifiers(SSN) for domestic members. This is the canonical workforce-truth surface a partner integratesagainst. Uses cursor pagination with a hard cap of 100 items per page.

Justworks Members API is one of 11 APIs that Justworks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include HR, PEO, Members, and Employees. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-05-25.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://public-api.justworks.com.

4 operations 4 paths 5 schemas 4 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2026-05-25
Server
https://public-api.justworks.com
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Justworks Members API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 3 scopes. By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Members 4

Read access to Justworks member records, custom fields, and tax IDs

GET
/v1/members
Justworks List Members
listMembers 4 params → 200401403
GET
/v1/members/{member_id}
Justworks Get Member
getMember 1 param → 200404
GET
/v1/members/{member_id}/custom-field-values
Justworks List Member Custom Field Values
listMemberCustomFieldValues 1 param → 200
GET
/v1/members/{member_id}/tax-id
Justworks Get Member Tax ID
getMemberTaxId 1 param → 200400404

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Member (27 properties), Address (6 properties), MemberName (5 properties), MemberList (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Member
object
27 properties
CustomFieldValue
object
2 properties
MemberName
object
5 properties
Address
object
6 properties
MemberList
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

justworks-members-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Justworks publishes across the network.

Justworks Company API
Justworks Deductions API
Justworks Webhooks API
Justworks OAuth API
Justworks Deduction Types API
Justworks Payrolls API
Justworks Paystubs API
Justworks Time Off Balances API
Justworks Time Off Policies API
Justworks Time Off Requests API