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Industry insights, hiring guides, and licensing data for Canada's legal cannabis workforce — researched from public regulatory and statistical sources, with every figure traced to a named primary source. We work with sponsors and partners, and we disclose who paid for what on every post.
TrimXTimer: a time clock built for the cannabis trim floor
A four-hour shift with forty-five minutes of breaks is three hours fifteen of billable work. Most timers cannot tell you that. We built one that can — and then kept going until it earned the trust of a payroll department.
There Is No Canadian Cannabis Salary Guide — And the Government Says So
Search "cannabis salary guide Canada" and you will find plenty of numbers. Almost none of them come from a government. Here is what the official data actually says, where it breaks down, and why the most-quoted cannabis wage in this country is really a greenhouse wage.
What Canada’s 891 active cannabis licences actually look like
We pulled the Health Canada licence registry apart by province, licence class, and vintage. Here is the real shape of the industry — including the number most people get wrong.
Where cannabis jobs actually are: what the licence data predicts about hiring
Processing licences outnumber cultivation licences two to one. That single ratio tells you more about where Canadian cannabis hires than any trend report.
Retail is the bigger employer — and 60% of it still isn’t online
Alberta has 964 licensed cannabis retailers against 76 producer licences. We looked at what the retail data shows about how this market is actually operating.
Micro, standard, processing, nursery: what licence classes mean for workers
Canada runs six main cannabis licence classes. What each one actually permits, and how the class of your employer shapes the roles available.