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What made you most excited about joining the Well-Paid Maids team?

I was excited about joining the team because they actually care about their employees. They offer a living wage and have great benefits that help me support my wife and my 2-year-old daughter.

What is your favorite benefit? How has it helped you?

My favorite benefit is that Well-Paid Maids pays for most of my health insurance. It was always a big issue to afford it with my former jobs. I had to pay about $200 a month for it. The job didn’t pay well, and my paychecks weren’t high enough to pay my bills, so I had to cancel the insurance. The cheapest option was through the state, but it was still $170 and not worth having.

In what other ways is Well-Paid Maids different from your previous work experiences?

Well-Paid Maids doesn’t put me down for having to call out of work due to emergencies. For example, last winter during the small snowstorm, I was having car trouble. I called my manager, and she said not to worry about going to work since the roads were dangerous anyway.

The next day, I had to take my car into the shop and had to miss work again. Thankfully, it was a minor issue, but my manager understood that emergencies happen and didn’t give me a hard time.

What’s your favorite part of the job?

My favorite part is that I am able to work without being micromanaged. My managers give me the freedom to work how I feel is best for each situation.

How would you describe your experience with Well-Paid Maids in one sentence?

Working at Well-Paid Maids has been a blessing to me because I have never had a job where I felt respected and appreciated for the hard work I put in.

For Paige Strott, hiring someone to clean her two-bedroom D.C. condo is a worthy investment. It allows the busy professional to check a daunting project off her to-do list and spend more time with her friends and family.

But finding a quality cleaning company proved challenging.

“I had used other cleaning services that felt like ‘Uber for house cleaning,’” she says. “They didn’t clean my house any better than I could have, so I felt I was wasting my money.”

Through an online search, she found Well-Paid Maids.

“The way they support employees through benefits and a living wage appealed to me because I like to support companies that have strong values and treat their employees well,” she says, noting the Netflix show “Maid” opened her eyes to the poor working conditions that plague the industry.

Even more, she appreciates how meticulously Well-Paid Maids takes care of her home.

“There is such a strong feeling of relief and calm when I come home to a clean house that Well-Paid Maids has thoroughly and thoughtfully done,” she says.

Paige has Well-Paid Maids clean her home about once every other month. Sometimes she’s working from home and other times she’s at work, leaving her dog in charge. Either way, she says the process is always smooth and convenient.

When asked if she'd recommend Well-Paid Maids to a friend, she says she already has. Recently, she had a friend over who asked what service she uses because she had never seen Paige’s place so clean!

Three years ago, Dasha Johnson was sitting in her car outside a Crystal City, VA hotel. She was on her lunch break, and she was in tears.

She was in the middle of getting through the nearly 20 rooms she was assigned to clean that day, and she felt overwhelmed. It wasn’t necessarily the job that was difficult. She was the only African American housekeeper, and she started “seeing things I didn’t like,” she explains.

In her car, she scrolled through Indeed job listings on her phone. She found one for a cleaner at Well-Paid Maids, a living-wage home cleaning company. She applied, not thinking much of it until she began researching the company later that evening.

It had a lot to offer: Living wages (which now start at $22 an hour); health, vision and dental insurance; 24 paid days off a year; and 100% employer-paid commuting costs.

Dasha received a call the following day from Aaron Seyedian, the company’s founder, and she was ready to start her new job ASAP.

Fast forward, and Dasha has been at Well-Paid Maids for more than five years, and she was promoted from cleaner to operations manager in 2021. The company is committed to promoting from within, and Dasha is one of three cleaners who have been promoted to a management role.

“Oh Em Gee. I cried. I literally cried,” Dasha says, recounting the call she got from Aaron about her promotion. “I had to cover my mouth because I didn’t want to scream in his ear. I felt like the hard work and dedication had paid off.”

In her time at Well-Paid Maids, Dasha has felt nothing but support both professionally and personally. For instance, when her ceiling collapsed at home and her landlord was nowhere to be found, management encouraged her to focus on her family and take the time off she needed.

Plus, the job perks have been great, too. The vision insurance helps her save money on her daughter’s contact lenses, and the health insurance was crucial when her daughter broke her arm. Recently, she took a week off of work to relax — to “rest my bones,” she says.

Even through all these positive experiences with the company, she says her favorite part is connecting with Well-Paid Maids’ customers. When she was a cleaner, she got to know her clients well, and now she keeps up with them when they reach out with questions about or adjustments to their cleanings.