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goobster  ·  1687 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: $70,000 minimum wage update

I have a friend who work(s/ed?) there. I can check in.

It's funny. The $70k thing was a big story everywhere else in America, but was only a small splash here in Seattle where people start around $100-120, at most normal tech companies.

Gravity Payments is not a big company, and works in data processing/services, which scale fairly easily without a commensurate increase in costs.

Let's see Weyerhaeuser or Boeing or a manufacturer do that kind of thing, where the cost of goods/materials doesn't scale so easily.

(Don't get me wrong. I LOVE GRAVITY FOR DOING THIS!! I am a huge proponent of public salary disclosures. It just keeps people honest, and working. The majority of execs I have ever worked with get about 2-3 hours of work done, 3 days a week. The rest of the time is - quite honestly - fucking off, and riding on their previous success in the company. "I did the work to get to this C-suite role, so now I have earned the right to work less.")