> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.flowpayroll.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Remove a salary version from an employee > Removes the salary version taking effect on the given date; the version before it applies from then on. The last remaining version cannot be removed, because the employee's salary would go dark: set its amount to 0 instead. Any open pay run the employee is on is recalculated. Responds with the remaining history. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/specs/pay-api.yaml delete /employees/{employeeId}/salary/{effectiveFrom} openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: FlowPayroll API description: >- API for payroll management, including payroll upload, lock, HMRC submission, employee management version: 0.1.0 servers: - url: https://api.sandbox.flowpayroll.ai/v1 security: - XAuthToken: [] XOrgId: [] tags: - name: Employees description: >- Create, retrieve, update, and delete employee records, and look them up by NI number or payroll ID. - name: Starters & leavers description: Set and clear starter and leaver details, individually or in bulk. - name: Tax codes description: >- Manage employee tax codes and query the effective tax code and NI category on a given date. - name: NI & identifiers description: Manage NI categories, National Insurance numbers, and payroll IDs. - name: Student loans description: Start and end student and postgraduate loans. - name: Payroll setup description: Assign an employee's payroll config and set opening balances. - name: Salary description: >- The employee's effective-dated annual salary history: read it, add or correct a version from a date, and remove one. The Salary API pro-rates this history onto each pay run. - name: Payroll - name: Payroll lines - name: PayrollConfig - name: Pay Elements - name: Calculator - name: Payslip - name: RTI - name: YearEnd - name: Organisation paths: /employees/{employeeId}/salary/{effectiveFrom}: delete: tags: - Salary summary: Remove a salary version from an employee description: >- Removes the salary version taking effect on the given date; the version before it applies from then on. The last remaining version cannot be removed, because the employee's salary would go dark: set its amount to 0 instead. Any open pay run the employee is on is recalculated. Responds with the remaining history. operationId: DeleteSalary parameters: - name: employeeId in: path required: true schema: type: string description: The ID of the employee - name: effectiveFrom in: path required: true schema: type: string format: date description: The effective date of the version to remove (YYYY-MM-DD) responses: '200': description: Salary version removed content: application/json: schema: type: object allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResponseBody' - properties: content: type: object properties: data: $ref: >- #/components/schemas/EmployeeSalaryHistoryResponseDto '400': description: Invalid effective date, or this is the only salary version content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResponseBody' '404': description: Employee or salary version not found content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResponseBody' '500': description: An internal server error occurred content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResponseBody' components: schemas: ResponseBody: type: object properties: message: $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageWithTokenResponse' content: type: object properties: data: type: object nullable: true metadata: type: object nullable: true properties: dateFormat: type: string default: yyyy-MM-dd dateTimeFormat: type: string default: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ paginationToken: type: string nullable: true validationIssues: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssue' EmployeeSalaryHistoryResponseDto: type: object description: >- The full effective-dated salary history of an employee, oldest first, with the version in force today. required: - versions properties: versions: type: array description: Every version, oldest first. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmployeeSalaryVersionDto' inForce: nullable: true description: >- The version in force today; null when every version is still in the future. allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmployeeSalaryVersionDto' MessageWithTokenResponse: type: object properties: text: type: string token: type: string tokenArguments: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssueArgument' ValidationIssue: type: object description: > Field validation item. `reasonToken` is a stable snake_case key for i18n or custom client messages; `reason` is the default English text from the API. properties: field: type: string description: Dot-path of the field (e.g. name.firstName, address.line1). reason: type: string description: Default human-readable message. reasonToken: type: string description: Machine-readable error identifier (snake_case). reasonTokenArguments: type: array nullable: true items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssueArgument' EmployeeSalaryVersionDto: type: object description: An effective-dated salary version with audit metadata. required: - effectiveFrom - annualSalary properties: effectiveFrom: type: string format: date example: '2026-04-06' annualSalary: type: number format: decimal description: The annual salary in pounds in force from effectiveFrom. example: 52000 reason: type: string nullable: true example: Annual review createdDate: type: string createdBy: type: string updatedDate: type: string updatedBy: type: string ValidationIssueArgument: type: object properties: name: type: string value: type: string securitySchemes: XAuthToken: type: apiKey in: header name: X-Auth-Token description: Access token obtained from OAuth2 client credentials flow XOrgId: type: apiKey in: header name: X-Org-Id description: >- Organisation to scope the request to. Required when the principal can access more than one organisation; optional for single-organisation principals (the authorizer resolves it automatically). ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.