Rippling: Create hire — request body — body hires item employment regular working hours

Create hire: request body, field body / hires / item / employment / regular_working_hours. Complete fields and constraints for contract 2026-10-28.

API reference · Contract 2026-10-28

SDK schema: Create hire — request body — body hires item employment regular working hours

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
`$`	object	Root	The role’s usual working days and, where required, its local daily start and end times. This describes the regular work pattern; weekly_hours remains the total expected hours per week. Additional keys: not allowed
`days`	array	Required within parent	Weekdays the worker ordinarily works. Use uppercase values such as MONDAY and FRIDAY.
`days[]`	JSON	Each item	One of: MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY
`days_per_week`	integer	Optional	Number of days ordinarily worked per week, such as 5.
`days_per_year`	integer	Optional	Number of days ordinarily worked per year, when the country tracks annual working days.
`end_time`	string	Optional	Usual local end time on a working day in HH:MM:SS format, such as 17:00:00. This is a wall-clock time in time_zone, not a UTC timestamp.
`hours_by_weekday`	Model	Optional	Expand Create hire — request body — body hires item employment regular working hours hours by weekday
`start_time`	string	Optional	Usual local start time on a working day in HH:MM:SS format, such as 09:00:00. This is a wall-clock time in time_zone, not a UTC timestamp.
`time_zone`	string	Optional	IANA time zone used to interpret start_time and end_time, such as Australia/Sydney or Europe/London.
`tracking_unit`	string	Optional	Unit used to track working time when required by the country: DAYS or HOURS. One of: DAYS, HOURS