# Employment Hero

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/employment-hero/  
**Website:** https://employmenthero.com  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Employment Hero is an AI-powered Employment Operating System for Australian and international businesses combining HR, payroll, recruitment, onboarding, learning, and employee benefits into a single platform. The product covers policy management, automated workflows, AI-assisted hiring, an employee mobile app, and the HeroForce managed employment service. The Employment Hero API is a versioned REST API authenticated via OAuth 2.0 with short- lived (15-minute) access tokens and refresh tokens.

## Kin Score — 32.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (12)

- **Employment Hero REST API** — Versioned REST API (v1) for accessing Employment Hero HR, payroll, and employee data including organisations, employees, teams, leave, pay runs, and onboarding. Apps register th...
- **Employment Hero Payroll API (KeyPay)** — Employment Hero Payroll (formerly KeyPay) REST API for managing businesses, employees, pay runs, leave, timesheets, super, tax, and reporting across the AU, UK, NZ, and SG payro...
- **Employment Hero Bank Accounts API** — The Bank Accounts API from Employment Hero — 1 operation(s) for bank accounts.
- **Employment Hero Certifications API** — The Certifications API from Employment Hero — 5 operation(s) for certifications.
- **Employment Hero Cost Centres API** — The Cost Centres API from Employment Hero — 1 operation(s) for cost centres.
- **Employment Hero Custom Fields API** — The Custom Fields API from Employment Hero — 1 operation(s) for custom fields.
- **Employment Hero Departments API** — The Departments API from Employment Hero — 2 operation(s) for departments.
- **Employment Hero Documents API** — The Documents API from Employment Hero — 1 operation(s) for documents.
- **Employment Hero Emergency Contacts API** — The Emergency Contacts API from Employment Hero — 1 operation(s) for emergency contacts.
- **Employment Hero Employees API** — The Employees API from Employment Hero — 3 operation(s) for employees.
- **Employment Hero Forms API** — The Forms API from Employment Hero — 4 operation(s) for forms.
- **Employment Hero Job Histories API** — The Job Histories API from Employment Hero — 1 operation(s) for job histories.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Employment Hero Agentic Access** — 24 operations · 9 acting

## Security (3)

- **Employment Hero Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Employment Hero Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Employment Hero Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

HR, HRIS, Payroll, Recruitment, Employee Benefits, Workforce Management, HR Tech

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/employment-hero/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.