How much money you can make in weed: The complete guide to salaries in the cannabis industry — Pot in Illinois

Pot In Illinois
10 min readMar 9, 2021

So, you want to work in pot? Maybe it’s one of your long held dreams. Or perhaps you’re under the impression you’ll get rich. Or maybe you simply have a passion for the plant, and don’t want to do anything else. Regardless of your motivation, you’ll want to know what kind of compensation you can get. Whether you’re a veteran, new to the business, or just curious, you need to know how much money you can make in weed: The complete guide to salaries in the cannabis industry.

The complete guide to weed jobs?

Adjust for Cost of Living

Before we get to that, a few caveats: The salary ranges we quote below are just that, ranges. You’ll want to make sure that you check the cost of living adjusted for each respective city you’re considering working in. Here are a few good tools:

Salary.com

SmartAsset

NerdWallet

Industry Trade Groups

Check out the below for well established national cannabis trade groups to participate in. We strongly, strongly recommend that if you want to make a career in cannabis, especially if you’re…

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