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Red Bear · 01-05-2015, 08:18 PM

cool thanks for contributing!
almost anyone could get an hourly grower job here with no investment.
its getting pretty corporate out here. not much fair pay in the retail side and medical is shrinking.

OakyJoe · 01-05-2015, 08:23 PM

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Red Bear · 01-05-2015, 08:31 PM

i hear about hourly grower and trimmer jobs, but I only know one "master grower" I hate that term.... any way he runs over 100 lights with about 10 helpers and makes "over 100 grand a year".
which seems pretty weak for all the running around, like 7 locations...

anyone know what head growers are getting paid?

Red Bear · 01-25-2015, 08:19 PM

anyone out there growing for a dispensary, and making more money than before?
i hear about people not making much for all the work involved.
yes, waittilidie it is hard earned. lots of work goes into this over many years only to be offered a dispensary job for 1/3 of the money one can make as a private caregiver...

MuricanWeedwolf · 05-24-2016, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Red Bear

anyone out there growing for a dispensary, and making more money than before?
i hear about people not making much for all the work involved.
yes, waittilidie it is hard earned. lots of work goes into this over many years only to be offered a dispensary job for 1/3 of the money one can make as a private caregiver...

You're only considering income. As a private caregiver you have some pretty substantial costs including materials, rent, utilities, security, distribution, etc. that you won't have working for a company. Also as a caregiver you're probably looking at working 7 days a week with no sick days or paid vacation. Most companies offer a nice health insurance package too. Some companies even will offer a legal retainer just in case.

So that $75K job suddenly becomes a $100K job with benefits included. There is no startup capital required, no overhead, no customers/patients to deal with, and you get a lot of perks that are simply unavailable to an independent caretaker grower.

For me, that works out to be a pretty square deal.

05-24-2016, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Red Bear

anyone out there growing for a dispensary, and making more money than before?
i hear about people not making much for all the work involved.
yes, waittilidie it is hard earned. lots of work goes into this over many years only to be offered a dispensary job for 1/3 of the money one can make as a private caregiver...

Made far less money working for dispensaries than I ever have off of an independent project, no matter how good the deal I secured with the company was.

Unless you're best friends with the rich asshole funding the operation, you're going to be a wage slave, sometimes just a decently compensated one.

Noonin NorCal · 05-24-2016, 06:21 AM

In my parts its on consignment, 2 weeks till you get paid out. This was going by pound to the club, i mean BITCHES!!!

Kweku Ananse · 05-24-2016, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SooperSmurph

Made far less money working for dispensaries than I ever have off of an independent project, no matter how good the deal I secured with the company was.

Unless you're best friends with the rich asshole funding the operation, you're going to be a wage slave, sometimes just a decently compensated one.

Nuff said.

Private op til you can afford an OPC yourself. LOL that last sentence was a doozey

Mr. Majestyk · 01-26-2017, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Bear

i hear about hourly grower and trimmer jobs, but I only know one "master grower" I hate that term.... any way he runs over 100 lights with about 10 helpers and makes "over 100 grand a year".
which seems pretty weak for all the running around, like 7 locations...

anyone know what head growers are getting paid?

Used to work with a shady 'professionals' I never felt bad checking out his pdf paystubs complete with a per month bonus. He was in charge of about 200,000 watts and pulled down 250000-500000 guessing on the two check stubs he left on a pc that I had to use for metrc. Like leaving his personal documents open on a public pc.

I made $12 as a processor
$13-15 as a grower, manual labor :(
O.pen vape pays $18.50-22 is what I hear.

Growers are a mix of

the very best and worst of people, mostly worst in my 10 years of canna work (insert un breaking intense stare here)

Douglas.Curtis · 01-26-2017, 07:10 PM

How do cannabis workers in the trade get paid? Weakly, veeeeery weakly.

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Noonin NorCal Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Sonoma County'ish Posts: 1,199	In my parts its on consignment, 2 weeks till you get paid out. This was going by pound to the club, i mean BITCHES!!!
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01-05-2015, 08:18 PM	#11
Red Bear Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 110	cool thanks for contributing! almost anyone could get an hourly grower job here with no investment. its getting pretty corporate out here. not much fair pay in the retail side and medical is shrinking.
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01-05-2015, 08:31 PM	#13
Red Bear Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 110	i hear about hourly grower and trimmer jobs, but I only know one "master grower" I hate that term.... any way he runs over 100 lights with about 10 helpers and makes "over 100 grand a year". which seems pretty weak for all the running around, like 7 locations... anyone know what head growers are getting paid?
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01-25-2015, 08:19 PM	#14
Red Bear Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 110	anyone out there growing for a dispensary, and making more money than before? i hear about people not making much for all the work involved. yes, waittilidie it is hard earned. lots of work goes into this over many years only to be offered a dispensary job for 1/3 of the money one can make as a private caregiver...
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