Price chose the $70,000 figure based on a 2010 Princeton University study that showed happiness, or "life evaluation," is positively impacted up to $70,000 or $75,000 per year but increases above that figure did not have a significant positive effect on happiness. This week, the 30-year-old CEO announced he would raise the yearly wages of all 120 of his employees to a minimum of 70,000. It was six years ago when CEO Dan Price raised the salary of everyone at his Seattle-based credit card processing company Gravity Payments to at least 70,000 a year. He's been driving the same car for the last 12 years: an Audi that he bartered for at a local car dealership in return for credit card processing from his company - "so, basically, for free," he said. He owns a three-bedroom home, where he likes to host guests and is admittedly "a nice place for sure," he said. "I may have to scale back a little bit, but nothing I’m not willing to do. According to a company representative, Gravity Payments sets contract length and cancellation fees on a case-by-case basis.We have located one sample contract provided by the company that outlines a three-year agreement through First Data with an early termination fee of 495.
Of those, 30 will double their salaries, Price said. Today, the company, which pays an average salary of $48,000, has 120 employees - and 70 of their paychecks will grow with this plan. About 70 employees at the company saw raises, with 30 doubling their annual salaries. Price said he was paid less than that for the first five years in business. That amounted to a 46 jump from Gravity Payments average annual salary at the time of 48,000. Gravity Payments specializes in e-commerce solutions, electronic check payment processing, debit and credit card processing, and gift and loyalty payment.
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Price grew up in rural southwestern Idaho with four brothers and later studied music at the Christian Seattle Pacific University. Gravity Payments is a registered Independent Sales Organization of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Concord, CA. The average salary for Gravity Payments employees is 87,185 per year.
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