{"id":32122,"date":"2016-08-19T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=32122"},"modified":"2016-08-19T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:37:47","slug":"70k-minimum-wage-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/08\/19\/70k-minimum-wage-ceo\/32122\/","title":{"rendered":"$70K Minimum Wage CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Price, the 32-year-old CEO of Gravity Payments, made national news last year when he announced he was putting in place a scaled pay policy that would raise the minimum wages of employees to $70,000 per year by 2017. The announcement led to a flood of job applicants\u2014and many new clients. Raised by evangelical Christian parents and home schooled, Price tells correspondent John Larson that his biblical training still shapes his ideas, whether he is serving others or running a company, and that \u201cbusiness that puts purpose over profit ends up making more profit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I can just be a small part of a revolution in business where it ceases to be just about making money but it\u2019s about solving problems and service, that would be enough to keep myself going,\u201d says Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/08\/19\/70k-minimum-wage-ceo\/32122\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":32148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-us-domestic-issues","faith-evangelical"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$70K Minimum Wage CEO | August 19, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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