CEO cuts own pay 90%, raises minimum salary for workers to $70,000

FRANCE 24 English 2015-04-17

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Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price has put his money where his mouth is by taking a massive pay cut. The Seattle-based tech company is to pay its employees a minimum $70,000 a year, a figure that is more than double some workers' current pay cheques. Plus, is All Nippon Airways' new "Star Wars plane" as cool as Air New Zealand's "Hobbit plane"?



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