Dan Price was the CEO of Gravity Payments, a financial services company. He realized how _________it was that he earned so much while the people working under him were struggling.

This point was driven home when he _________ a McDonald’s handbook on the desk of employee Rosita Barlow. When asked, Rosita burst into tears and _________ that after she left work at Gravity, she went straight to her shifts at McDonald’s. Some nights, she even stood _________ at the local food bank.

That’s when Dan decided to do something to stop income _________ in his company. In 2015, he cut his own pay by 90%, mortgaging (抵押) his two houses, and _________ his stocks and savings so that he could _________ every single employee’s pay to $70,000 a year!

More than a third of his employees saw their _________ double. They began to truly thrive(奋发) once the stress of making ends meet was _________ from their everyday lives. Employees like Rosita were finally able to quit their second jobs and __________ their work, actually increasing productivity.

When COVID-19 hit the U.S., Dan’s company __________ financial difficulties. But what the employees decided __________ Dan! They chose to take a voluntary pay cut of between 5% and 100% to keep Gravity going __________. It worked! Gravity was able to __________ from the economic downturn, and they recently restored all salaries to their pre-pandemic amount.

Dan treated his employees well. And when it was their turn to __________ him, they didn’t let him down!