Radical CEO Activism: Paying Every Employee A Living Wage

On our new episode of All Ears, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price joins Abby from Seattle to talk about his experience as a small business owner in Seattle. Five years ago, Dan made a radical decision to make the base salary $70,000 for every employee at his company, and took a pay cut to do it. It’s been a roller coaster ever since. Also, Dan and Abby discuss their conservative upbringings, how that influenced their work around inequality, and why caring for the well-being of low-wage workers is considered by some to be “un-American”.

EPISODE LINKS:

• Dan on Twitter: @danpriceseattle
• Abby on Twitter: @abigaildisney
• Fork Films on Twitter: @ForkFilms
• Link to “High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being” by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, Center for Health and Well-being, Princeton University 
• Link to Jose Garcia’s Fatman to Batman blog