“I’ve been hiring people 20-something years and it’s never been this difficult,” Krane said. Machine operators earn well over $20 an hour, based on experience.īut the company, which has hired nearly 65 workers to handle single-shift production, still has more than a dozen openings, including machinist, packaging and logistics jobs. Phoenix-based 4Front Ventures is trying to fully staff its newly opened, 170,000-square-foot cultivation and processing plant in the city of Commerce, which borders L.A.Ī lack of quality applicants and “shockingly low” response rates led the multistate operator to reevaluate starting salaries and boost compensation, said Josh Krane, 4Front’s vice president of operations in California.
“They think they’re going to return to the general market and find more money, but I think they’re going to be rudely surprised that most retailers are thinning out, scaling down their labor and trying to survive.” “Everyone is starting to value their labor more than I’m willing to pay,” he added. Kiloh, who launched the dispensary eight years ago in Sherman Oaks, said he can’t afford to pay “huge salaries” while his store struggles to compete against a thriving illicit market, where eighths of flower sell for as little as $15. “Some people are a little disenchanted about what the future of California cannabis really looks like.” “In cannabis retail in the last six or seven months, I’ve never seen this kind of turnover,” said Jerred Kiloh, owner of Los Angeles cannabis shop The Higher Path. An incredible trimmer can make $500 a day in product.It’s a scenario that’s no doubt occurring in other state-legal cannabis markets across the country beyond California. “A really great trimmer can make up to $400 a day or $450 a day. “Really slow trimmers can make as little as $100 a day, if they’re not any good,” Blake said. As a self-proclaimed world-class trimmer, he brags about how fast he is, which means he can earn more. The first person who hired Bishma to trim paid him in cash - no taxes. There is a strong sentiment from people in the business that as laws evolve to legalize recreational weed, it will have an impact when it comes to trimming and money. Even though Prop 64 passed in California, the state is still in transition when it comes to recreational marijuana. Marijuana laws in the United States differ from state to state and county to county. “You really want to trim it perfectly if you’re going to sell it.”Ī recent Yahoo News/Marist poll, Weed and the American Family, reported that 52 percent of Americans surveyed age 18 or older have tried marijuana in their lifetime. It also found that “there is overwhelming support for the legalization of medical marijuana,” with 83 percent of Americans behind it, and that a majority of Americans, 56 percent, “think marijuana use is socially acceptable.” “You want to get all the big leaf - and all the leaf - off the flower stuff so it shows in a beautiful way,” said cannabis farmer Tim Blake. and all over the rest of the world, including Spain, France, Portugal and Switzerland. Many trimmers in the county looking for work this season have come from all over the U.S. They are the trimmers, those hired to cut marijuana for hours on end. They flood into the region during the cannabis harvest in the fall. Most people sitting around this table in Mendocino County are migrant workers. Hours meld, the sound of snipping and sticky scissors clinking when they are dipped in jars of alcohol as the workers groom the weed. This once mostly black market trade is slowly becoming more regulated, hindering the flow of quick under-the-table cash. The work is tedious, but it pays well - for now. — - They sit for hours at a time, hunched over tables with scissors in one hand and marijuana in the other.
0 kommentar(er)
