# Redact monetary amounts

> Redact prices, salaries, balances, and invoice totals in multiple currencies from text and tabular data.

Canonical: https://bitbanger.in/entities/amount
Last updated: 2026-10-27

Category: Financial data · Entity type: `financial.amount`

Amounts are not personal data on their own, but a salary next to a name is. Teams use this type when sharing compensation data or customer balances with parties who should see the structure but not the numbers.

## How Redactly detects monetary amounts

- Reported when the model flags the value, when an amount follows a cue such as total or salary, or when a currency symbol sits directly against the number.
- Recognises currency symbols, ISO codes, and K/M/B magnitude suffixes.
- Cue-derived amounts have trailing punctuation trimmed, so the span ends at the number rather than the comma after it.

## Why redact monetary amounts?

Salary and balance figures are among the most commercially sensitive values in an HR or finance export.

## Example request

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.bitbanger.in/v1/redact \
  -H "X-API-Key: rdct_your_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "Offer letter total compensation: $185,000 base plus $20K bonus.", "style": "replace"}'
```

## FAQ

**Does Redactly redact monetary amounts automatically?**

Yes. Send text to the API and every detected type is redacted, including monetary amounts. To redact only this type, pass the value financial.amount in the entities filter. No training or configuration is required.

**What happens to monetary amounts after redaction?**

With style set to replace, each match becomes [financial.amount] — the entity type in square brackets. Setting style to mask replaces every character with a block character, and remove deletes the span entirely.

## Related entity types

- [Credit card numbers](https://bitbanger.in/entities/credit-card) — Redact card numbers from text and JSON with Luhn validation, so only real card numbers are flagged and order IDs are left alone.
- [Bank account numbers](https://bitbanger.in/entities/bank-account) — Redact domestic bank account numbers that carry no checksum and no fixed format.
- [Company names](https://bitbanger.in/entities/company-name) — Redact organisation and employer names where the counterparty itself is confidential.

Try it on your own text: https://bitbanger.in/entities/amount