Verkkoceo dan price says company's revenue has tripled since he gave employees $70k minimum salary. In 2015, gravity payments ceo dan price. Verkkoprice slashed his own salary by $1 million to be able to give his employees a pay raise. He was hailed a hero by some and met with predictions of. Verkkoat 31, price was a millionaire. His company, gravity payments, which he set up in his teens, had about 2,000 customers and an estimated worth of millions of dollars. Verkkogravity payments now pays employees a minimum wage of $80,000 per year, price tweeted this week. Price, 38, has run into other legal trouble. His brother lucas sued him in 2015, alleging that.