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Could Lovable's automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures? | TechCrunch

TechCrunch·Julie Bort·25 days ago
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Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is growing revenue at an astronomical rate — and doing something that few U.S. companies, startup or otherwise, would even contemplate: voluntarily promising annual 10% salary raises for all employees on their work anniversaries. In the U.S. corporate world, employees don’t generally get built-in raises unless they’ve unionized, and even then, a 10% raise across the board is typically spread over multiple years of a contract, not delivered annually. While most companies do have stock and profit-sharing plans, what’s different here is that Lovable is sharing the wealth as a direct raise, not contingent on vesting schedules or the employee kicking in cash to convert stock options into actual shares. Now, it’s true that such a decent raise across the board is made easier — perhaps is only possible — at a smallish company. Lovable said in March that it had 146 employees.…

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