Update employment type for a contract | Deel

Update the employment type (full-time or part-time) and FTE for a Global Payroll contract. Provide the contract ID and the change details, including the date the change takes effect. Token scopes: contracts:write

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Authentication

The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail.

$ curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
>   -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication

## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)

AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Path parameters

contract_idstringRequiredformat: "^(([a-z0-9]{6,})|([a-z0-9-_]{20,})|(-2[0-9]{2}))$"<=100 characters

The unique identifier of the GP contract.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

dataobjectRequired

Employment-type change details, including the effective date.

Response

dataobject

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

404

Not Found Error

500

Internal Server Error

$	curl -X PATCH https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/gp/contracts/abc123xyz/employment-type \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-d '{
>	"data": {
>	"fte": 0.5,
>	"effective_date": "2026-04-01",
>	"employment_type": "EMPLOYEE_PT"
>	}
>	}'

1	{
2	"data": {
3	"fte": 0.5,
4	"contract_id": "abc123xyz",
5	"effective_date": "2026-04-01",
6	"employment_type": "EMPLOYEE_PT"
7	}
8	}

$	curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
>	-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'