what's this job worth, anyway?!

[pfunk211]

so the "master gardener" quit, but it's not a big deal. i've been running the garden for a while anyway. i'm certain they're about to offer me the position, for $10/hr.
can any of you fine folks, or palerider7777, offer any insight to what this position is actually worth?? i can see $10/hr for scrubbing pots and changing reservoirs and trimmers, maybe, but to hold the reigns seems like it should pay a little better.......

pfunk211 Reviewed by pfunk211 on 12-18-2010. what's this job worth, anyway?! so the "master gardener" quit, but it's not a big deal. i've been running the garden for a while anyway. i'm certain they're about to offer me the position, for $10/hr. can any of you fine folks, or palerider7777, offer any insight to what this position is actually worth?? i can see $10/hr for scrubbing pots and changing reservoirs and trimmers, maybe, but to hold the reigns seems like it should pay a little better....... Rating: 5

[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.

[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.

[canaguy27]

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

[HarvestHouse]

so the "master gardener" quit, but it's not a big deal. i've been running the garden for a while anyway. i'm certain they're about to offer me the position, for $10/hr.
can any of you fine folks, or palerider7777, offer any insight to what this position is actually worth?? i can see $10/hr for scrubbing pots and changing reservoirs and trimmers, maybe, but to hold the reigns seems like it should pay a little better.......

if you are a master gardener you should know what your worth.

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

if you are a master gardener you should know what your worth.

eewww thats gotta hurt. new territory for many though. masters should be getting 50-150k a year including comps. you have to know what a botanist knows. micro, macro nutes, plant imbalances, every aspect of the grow is accounted for, not to mention being on call for every little thing. this guy might know the room in which he works but does he know the root system like his old master.

[copobo]

growing is a union gig in California.

Colorado next?

[pfunk211]

"master gardener" was and is in quotes for a reason. i'm just some jerk that knows how to google anything and everything and retains information well.....

they haven't had anyone with those credentials in that spot yet, but i'm thinking that i can slide in a master gardener certification course through their "generosity". it's offered at CSU for less than a grand.....

i've always been a home grower and hired on with these folks to kill some time and see some things that i wouldn't see at home, as a grower's assistant for $10/hr and was cool with that.

now, i'm solely responsible for everything from clone to harvest in two ten tray e/f rooms, a 48 bucket dwc room and a 100 bag soil room as well as 120 mothers and, frankly, rocking it.

i just read the 99 pages of new rules, though, and don't even know if i'm interested in that sort of scrutiny, even just as an employee.