Well-Paid Maids

Living-wage home cleaning.

We give our workers a living wage and comprehensive benefits.

They give you a dazzling, professional cleaning like no one else can.

We give our workers a living wage and comprehensive benefits.

They give you a dazzling, professional cleaning like no one else can.

A cleaner wipes the interior of a kitchen cabinet.

A cleaner way of doing business.

We’re a living-wage home cleaning company delivering excellent service to our customers while providing our employees with the compensation, security, and dignity they deserve.

Two cleaners cooperatively put fresh sheets on a bed

Livability for you and us.

Well-Paid Maids cleaners are employees—real people with names and lives, not anonymous contractors or temporary gig workers. We’re proud of our pay structure, and are freely transparent about its details.

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Do I need to be home during my cleaning?

Are your staff vaccinated? What about masks?

What’s included in a cleaning?

Cleaning products, including a sponge, glove, cloth, and bottle of all-purpose cleaner

Products that are safe for the planet, for your family, and for your pets.

We maintain strict standards for every product we use. You can rest comfortably in a home that was cleaned ethically and safely—and smells great, too.

This founder hopes to force stronger labor laws, starting by paying domestic workers fairly

Aaron Seyedian is careful to make the ever-so-slight distinction between his housekeeping business and its quasi-competitors. Well-Paid Maids is not a company that simply happens to pay a living wage. It’s a living-wage cleaning company. Its entire branding rests on the idea of treating employees justly. For the 12 maids on board, that means a starting wage of $17, with merit increases; health, dental, and vision insurance from day one; 22 days of paid time off per year; and unemployment insurance and short-term disability insurance in case of termination or injury. Unlike maids at many cleaning companies—or Uber drivers, for that matter—they are salaried employees, not independent contractors.

At her former cleaning job, Kimberly Reyes was paid a set amount, in cash, even if the house was a disaster. Sometimes there wasn’t enough work, so she got a second job working nights and weekends at a restaurant. Because she was a contractor, she had to save up to pay taxes on her income but didn’t always set aside enough. But in December, Reyes, who lives in Maryland, started working for Well-Paid Maids in Washington D.C., which is launching operations in Boston Monday. Now she is a full-time employee making $17 an hour, with three weeks of paid vacation time and access to health insurance. For Reyes, who is studying to become a medical administrative assistant, the job is a revelation.

Aaron Seyedian is running an experiment. He has launched a service to provide housecleaning services in the D.C. area and is asking residents to pay as much as $139 to have a spotless one-bedroom apartment. That’s more than many of his competitors charge — at least $30 more, in one case. But Seyedian is making the case that this is not excessively expensive, given that he’s offering his workers something other services are not — a living wage. His newly launched Well-Paid Maids is giving workers $16 an hour, plus benefits.