---
title: "Yield"
description: "what a job returned for each unit of cost, with the host's measured rate and health"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/yield
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Yield

what a job returned for each unit of cost, with the host's measured rate and health

[figure: Yield is a fact at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | fact |
| scope | follows |
| key | the job |
| store | postgres+lake |
| family | sources |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `job` | `id` | yes |  |
| `units_returned` | `count` | yes |  |
| `cost` | [Cost](/concepts/cost) | yes |  |
| `rate_measured` | `count` | yes |  |
| `health` | `one of good \| degraded \| down` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Yield directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.