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CEO Cuts $1M Salary to Pay Workers $70K

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That's the minimum wage.

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Gravity Payments founder Dan Price surprised his 120 employees Monday: After reading that money fluctuations are a big problem for those earning less than $70,000, he decided to make that the minimum wage for all the employees at his credit-card payment-processing company. To do so, Price cut his own salary from $1 million to $70,000 (CEOs make on average 300 times an average company salary), and plans to cut into company profit. Thirty people at Gravity will see their salaries double as a result.

Read it at The New York Times