Extractor Pay Discussion

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My extractor in WA has the potential to make six figures and will very likely do so with bonuses this year. Started as a trimmer while getting his engineering degree, 5 yrs later, I think he is pretty happy with his career choice.

We have been considering getting him an assistant and would likely pay $15-18/hr.

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Hell 215 days trimmers made that

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I feel you! Iā€™m not one to do shady shit. Even if I was actively getting fucked, I would take my fucking while trying to find something else. I was raised that way. What matters the most is the way you act when you think no one is looking. Integrity, and all thatā€¦

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People taking the jobs at these rates is the problem.

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Iā€™ve spent a lot of my time making fuck all money while the boss made bank.

A bit of my time making damn good money while my boss printed it (oil and gas).

It doesnā€™t matter where Iā€™ve been; the boss never seems to want to share their cut.

But Iā€™ve also noticed something in my time. If you:

  • treat people like human beings,
  • let them have some agency (aka hire smart people and get out of their way)
  • pay them enough that they arenā€™t worried about getting more money so they can eat. (This rate generally seems to be 10%-25% over the prevailing market rate.)

They will work about 2x harder and 3x smarter.

Thatā€™s 2x the productivity.

Now, itā€™s the right thing to do. But itā€™s also got the highest ROI.

Most of my workers are going to be engineers, and relatively well paid too.

Thatā€™s overkill, certainly.

But I know that every one of my employees will have the brains and ability to at least competently think about a problem before hitting it with a blunt object.

Iā€™m also making sure that every employee who wants a slice of the company can get it through a stock option plan.

And profit sharing.

So when the company does good, so do they. I may have been a key part of building this fucker, but they keep it alive.

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I was running yhe machines. These were tube packers, trim grinders, and errand runners.

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Hell 200lb trimming in Fresno was the time.

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This is so true.

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Best part was just walking into dispensaryā€™s to hawk slabs lol, easy money!

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Seriously

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I just moved to Maine from Nevada and would love to make 50k a year in an extraction lab hahaha. Most places were only offering $18 - 20 an hour.

I think itā€™s a race to the bottom on how much to pay techs and extractors no matter where you are.

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Whatā€™s cost of living in Maine

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Yeah I want to work with @Codemanmakeshash. I must have asked for too much (70k) in my interview. I never heard back from them.

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The 215 days where great. Duffle bags full of elbows. Straight thru the front door of retail stores. No questions about where it came from, no testing.

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The glory days Iā€™ll never forget how bad things have gotten.

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Oh yeah, now its fucked off carts made with god knows what, and the most popular cannabinoid of the day.

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I guess thatā€™s nice if the growers actually know what theyā€™re doing and donā€™t need pesticides.

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The buyers werenā€™t stupid. 20 years of experience most likely. 215 lasted a good minute. Sb420gangggg

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When we first got operational in MI you could still buy caregiver product. All of it we bought failed pesticide and/or mold testing.

Needless to say it didnā€™t get ran.

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That stuff never made it to stores and sold for 300+

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