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Create a direct employee

POST
/people
POST
/rest/v2/people
$curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/people \
>     -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>     -d '{
>  "data": {
>    "client": {
>      "team": {
>        "id": "cbb25647-31e0-485d-9d5f-bdd48296aa1e"
>      },
>      "legal_entity": {
>        "id": "cfebc769-abe9-4646-83b9-28cf79f23a0d"
>      }
>    },
>    "employee": {
>      "email": "email@email.com",
>      "country": "US",
>      "last_name": "Doe",
>      "first_name": "John",
>      "nationality": "BR"
>    },
>    "employment": {
>      "type": "FULL_TIME",
>      "job_title": "Software Engineer",
>      "seniority": "Senior",
>      "start_date": "2020-01-01"
>    },
>    "compensation_details": {
>      "salary": 10000,
>      "currency": "USD"
>    }
>  }
>}'
1{
2  "data": {
3    "id": "f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479",
4    "employee": {
5      "email": "email@email.com",
6      "last_name": "Doe",
7      "first_name": "John",
8      "nationality": "BR",
9      "work_email": "work@email.com",
10      "external_id": "1234"
11    },
12    "employment": {
13      "type": "FULL_TIME",
14      "country": "US",
15      "end_date": "2029-01-01",
16      "job_title": "Software Engineer",
17      "seniority": "Senior",
18      "start_date": "2020-01-01",
19      "contract_id": "3w6pd6r",
20      "part_time_percentage": 23
21    },
22    "compensation_details": {
23      "salary": 10000,
24      "currency": "USD",
25      "scale": "ANNUAL"
26    }
27  }
28}

Creates a direct employee record in Deel’s HRIS, hired under the organization’s own legal entity. Provisions both a person and an associated employment contract. Applicable when onboarding employees managed through your own payroll providers. It can support downstream integrations, such as IT equipment orders. Token scopes: people:write

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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 curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)
OR
AuthorizationBearer

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

Request

This endpoint expects an object.
dataobjectRequired

Response

Successful operation.
dataobject

Errors

400
Bad Request Error
401
Unauthorized Error
403
Forbidden Error
404
Not Found Error
500
Internal Server Error

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.

1curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
2  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication