keyword

paying employees

Monthly search volume and cost-per-click data for "paying employees" in US.

$ curl "https://api.seodata.dev/v1/keyword?q=paying+employees&country=us" +--------------+------------------+ | volume | 260 | | cpc | $121.04 | | competition | 0.53 | | country | US | | updated | 2026-08-31 | +--------------+------------------+

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	14/20
pay an employee	880	$52.28	11/20
how to pay an employee	480	$86.98	15/20
how to pay employee	480	$98.62	14/20
how to pay workers	480	$86.98	13/20
how do i pay an employee	480	$98.62	12/20
how to pay staff	480	$86.98	12/20
how do you pay your employees	50	$45.44	12/20
how do i pay my employees	40	$124.45	11/20
how to pay your employees in a small business	30	$68.4	11/20

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=paying+employees&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