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Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:30 PM Aug 2022

Seattle CEO who cut his pay so workers earned $70K resigns

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle CEO who announced in 2015 that he was giving himself a drastic pay cut to help cover the cost of big raises for his employees has announced his resignation.

Dan Price, the embattled CEO of credit card processing company Gravity Payments, resigned Wednesday, The Seattle Times reported.

Price stunned his 100-plus workers when he told them he was cutting his roughly $1 million salary to $70,000 and using company profits to ensure that everyone there would earn at least that much within three years.

“My No. 1 priority is for our employees to work for the best company in the world, but my presence has become a distraction here,” Price wrote in a statement on Twitter. He founded the company 18 years ago.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/seattle-ceo-cut-pay-workers-021933101.html

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Seattle CEO who cut his pay so workers earned $70K resigns (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 OP
Welp there goes the big wages Fullduplexxx Aug 2022 #1
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