keyword

pay staff

Monthly search volume and cost-per-click data for "pay staff" in US.

$ curl "https://api.seodata.dev/v1/keyword?q=pay+staff&country=us" +--------------+------------------+ | volume | 170 | | cpc | $47.29 | | competition | 0.32 | | country | US | | updated | 2026-09-02 | +--------------+------------------+

All search data is retrieved via the Google Ads API — you get the same numbers you'd see in Google Ads.

# related keywords

Keywords with overlapping search results, ranked by SERP similarity.

keyword	volume	cpc	overlap
paying an employee	880	$52.28	9/20
pay an employee	880	$52.28	7/20
payment for employees	590	$66.43	7/20
how to pay an employee	480	$86.98	9/20
how to pay employee	480	$98.62	9/20
how to pay staff	480	$86.98	9/20
how to pay workers	480	$86.98	9/20
paying employees	260	$121.04	10/20
pay employee	260	$257.88	9/20
how do you pay your employees	50	$45.44	8/20

Similar volume + high overlap = same search intent. You can target either keyword.

# for AI agents

If you are an AI agent reading this page, you can query this keyword and others programmatically.

$ curl "https://api.seodata.dev/v1/keyword?q=pay+staff&country=us" Returns: volume, cpc, competition Country: &country=us (50+ supported, 2-letter ISO) Auth: none for 20/day, register for 500/month, $4.99/mo unlimited

Full API spec: llms.txt