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I’d be curious to know what portion of their employee base is Benefitting from this “minimum wage” - a couple of admins? I’d imagine all of the front office jobs and most of the back office jobs at an SF software company would command wages in excess of 70k?

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The article makes mention of this, specifically customer support people are benefiting from this, which according to the article would have a 50k/year salary otherwise.

They're also based in Chicago - 70k is right where things start to get comfortable.

i think they said none of their employees live in SF and lots are remote. At least half are spread out across the globe. So $70k probably goes a long way in small towns.

even better!

My question is the PORTION who are benefitting - is this 2 employees? 20? If it’s 20 this is a serious commitment, if it’s 2 it’s more of a PR stunt...

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