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Employee Benefits

Get a Section 603 high earner status for a specific year

Get a Section 603 high earner status for an employee for a specific year.

Section 603 of the SECURE 2.0 Act applies to employees aged 50 or older whose prior-year FICA wages exceed the IRS threshold. These employees are classified as high earners, and their catch-up contributions to pre-tax retirement benefits must be designated as post-tax contributions.

scope: employee_benefits:read

get/v1/employees/{employee_uuid}/section603_high_earner_statuses/{effective_year}

Path parameters

employee_uuidstring required

The UUID of the employee

effective_yearinteger required

The effective year for the Section 603 status

Headers

X-Gusto-API-Version'2026-06-15'

Determines the date-based API version associated with your API call. If none is provided, your application's minimum API version is used.

Response

successful

idstring required

The unique identifier of the Section 603 high earner status record

effective_yearinteger required

The year for which this high earner status applies

is_high_earnerboolean nullable required

Whether the employee is classified as a high earner for Section 603 purposes. Can be null if the status has not yet been determined.