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The job_value field is returned in cents, not dollars. A value of 1000000 represents $10,000.00. This is intentional and follows established API design patterns for handling monetary values.

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Why Cents?

Returning monetary values in cents (the smallest currency unit) is a common practice in financial APIs. This approach:
  • Avoids floating-point precision errors — representing $10.50 as 1050 cents eliminates rounding issues that can occur with decimal numbers
  • Simplifies integer arithmetic — calculations with whole numbers are faster and more reliable
  • Follows industry standards — major payment APIs like Stripe use the same convention

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Converting to Dollars

To convert job_value to dollars in your application, divide by 100: 
job_value_cents = 1000000
job_value_dollars = job_value_cents / 100  # Result: 10000.00

const jobValueCents = 1000000;
const jobValueDollars = jobValueCents / 100; // Result: 10000.00
When displaying monetary values to users, format the result as currency after converting from cents.