About the business: Well-Paid Maids, headquartered in Takoma Park, is a home-cleaning company that pays its employees a living wage, currently starting at $22 an hour, plus benefits, 24 paid days off a year and 100% employer-paid commuter costs. Aaron Seyedian, its founder, has also used the business as a platform to advocate for pro-worker policies.
How it started: Before Well-Paid Maids, Seyedian worked at a D.C. consulting firm in the procurement space. But that career wasn’t what brought him to the District. He wasn’t diving into the issues he cares about, that he wanted to address as far back as a teenager. In general, he said, “I now know I wasn’t cut out for traditional white-collar employment.”
“As a consultant, you’re basically a mercenary,” he said. “It wasn’t meaningful to me.”
So he left and launched Well-Paid Maids with maybe $6,000 or $7,000. Why cleaning? It’s a fairly low overhead business to start, for one, and it was a space known for bad working…
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