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Workday Payroll Earnings API

Manage earning codes and worker earnings

Workday Payroll Earnings API is one of 21 APIs that Workday Payroll publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 138 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Earnings. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, a JSON-LD context, and 138 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version v1.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.workday.com/payroll-input/v1, https://{tenant}.workday.com/api/payroll-input/v1.

2 operations 2 paths 7 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
v1
Base URL
https://api.workday.com/payroll/v1
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Workday Payroll Earnings API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 bearer token obtained through Workday authentication.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Earnings 2

Manage earning codes and worker earnings

GET
/workers/{workerId}/earnings
Workday Payroll List Worker Earnings
listWorkerEarnings 3 params → 200401404
GET
/earningCodes
Workday Payroll List Earning Codes
listEarningCodes 2 params → 200401

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Earning (7 properties), EarningCode (5 properties), Error (3 properties), EarningCodeCollection (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PayPeriod
object
2 properties
EarningCode
object
5 properties
Earning
object
7 properties
EarningCodeRef
object
2 properties
Error
object
3 properties
EarningCollection
object
2 properties
EarningCodeCollection
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

workday-payroll-earnings-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Workday Payroll One-Time Payments API
Workday Payroll Pay Groups API
Workday Payroll Pay Runs API
Workday Payroll Payment Elections API
Workday Payroll Payment Results API
Workday Payroll Payroll Adjustments API
Workday Payroll Payroll Calculations API
Workday Payroll Payroll Summaries API
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