what's this job worth, anyway?!

[pfunk211]

really, the thing is.... if a grower is REALLY worth a shit to the dispensary, and they are paying $10 an hour, this grower will get HIRED AWAY by a dispensary that looses their guy and realizes the value.

there are a jillion swinging dicks on the front range who think thay are badass growers, but could never take on a couple 99 plant grows with success, growing the fire.

If someone IS pulling off commercial production for a shop and is the primary supplier... this guy should def be the highest paid non-owner employee - and perhaps MORE than the owner. many owners aren't taking a paycheck as they grow their businesses...

I'm telling you, it's most important for businesses to realize who on the team you could afford to lose and who you can't. Those that would change your profitability in a big way if they went to work for the guy across the street need to be kept happy. They need to be paid & benifit-ed well BEFORE investors are sent profits, or the business will be SOL before you know it!

Key employees are your most important investment.

truer words never have been written.....

i walked. a couple of the guys from the garden came over tonight and told me how it's been since i stopped going.

i've never really been vindictive, but i think it's pretty funny that it's not so easy for them.

so, good help is out there, folks, if you need it......

[MtnLionCO]

good for you, and another thing the dispensaries forget is that there is a finite number of potential customers, and that number might perhaps decrease as people stop using dispensaries altogether because of more regulation, poor quality, and high price.

anybody in business knows the people that make the real money are the owners/partners of the business, not the employees. why not start your own business , start with a small grow and then 'grow' the business.

[copobo]

that'll be next for some folks. interesting thing is, this market opens back up this summer, right?

how many mmc owners are planning on doing something differently because of this? I bet there are some folks with some cash that will roll out proper as soon as the moratorium is over.

[puntacometa]

15 per hour plus heavy compensation for results is what I have heard

I have heard from a very reliable source that at least one revenue agent is looking very hard at grower employment contracts and if they even suspect that the grower is getting a percentage of the harvest or a bonus based on yield, they are going to be required to undergo the key associate investigative process.

[copobo]

that's a bunch of shit. there are a jillion non-ownership positions that bonus based on performance. That is exactly WHY you bonus based on performance - is the employee is a non-owner and otherwise there is no incentive to excel.

[SoCoMMJ]

I have heard from a very reliable source that at least one revenue agent is looking very hard at grower employment contracts and if they even suspect that the grower is getting a percentage of the harvest or a bonus based on yield, they are going to be required to undergo the key associate investigative process.

Yeah, they said this repeatedly during the application period. If you are hourly, no problem, standard employee criteria. If you are paid on performance, you are a key and have much stricter criteria to qualify. This will probably cause some unsettling as growers get unqualified due to performance contracts and inability to meet key criteria.

So now the shops will have to move a grower into the garden that meets criteria? This will get ugly.

[puntacometa]

Yeah, they said this repeatedly during the application period. If you are hourly, no problem, standard employee criteria. If you are paid on performance, you are a key and have much stricter criteria to qualify. This will probably cause some unsettling as growers get unqualified due to performance contracts and inability to meet key criteria.

So now the shops will have to move a grower into the garden that meets criteria? This will get ugly.

What is standard employee criteria? I would think that $100.00 per hour is well within reason for an experienced grower who knows how to bring in a consistent high yield of top shelf product.

[copobo]

for a larger dispensary, I think you are correct.

[VapedG13]

we pay our trimmer $25 a plant to trim our bubba... 3 oz plants take about 1 hour.

pay rate will go on the size of the grow you are taking take of

100 plant grow you can take care of easily spending only 4 hrs a day...thats like a $15 a hr job

1000 plant grow is a full time job.......


$1000 a week base pay.... 10% of the finished product $$$ based on what you produced weight wise..... 2 ozs a month personal.....medical and dental too

1000 plants 4 oz per 4000 oz X 175 = 700,000 thats selling @ $2800 LB

[VapedG13]

If you produced that 4 times a year.... $2.8 million for the employer

master growers cut $52,000 weekly pay... $280,000 bonus ... 24 ozs

I would galdly pay someone $330,000 to make me a million + $$$ after taxes :thumbsup:

Employees who help maintain the grows.. should get $10-20 a hr depending on responsibilites and experience