Well-Paid Maids Hits Bay Area, Luring Workers and Customers With Living

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/17/well-paid-maids-hits-bay-area-attracting-workers/Well-Paid Maids, a living-wage cleaning company based in Washington DC, recently expanded to the Bay Area, luring job applicants from as far and wide as Modesto and Stockton due to its impressive starting wage of $27 per hour, plus full benefits. As reported by New York blog Westside Rag, Well-Paid Maids founder Aaron Seyedian built the company in 2017 around providing fair pay and benefits packages to its employees, first in DC, then New York and Chicago before launching in the Bay Area last month. Formerly working in international development at the World Bank, Seyedian told Westside Rag he wanted to prove the business lobbyists wrong who claimed a living-wage business mo