Cannabis Industry Has Created Nearly Half A Million Full-Time Jobs: New Report Reveals Which States Will See Hiring Surge
Over the last year, the legal cannabis industry registered 22,952 new jobs, representing a 5.4% year-over-year increase and bringing the total number of full-time equivalent jobs supported by the industry to 440,445. That’s according to the second annual Vangst Jobs Report.
“When we started Vangst, there were less than 50,000 full-time employees in the cannabis industry,” Karson Humiston, Vangst founder and CEO, said in a Wednesday press release. “Less than a decade later, there are 440,445 full-time employees in cannabis, a number that will continue growing.”
In February, Vangst revealed that a majority of cannabis companies that were surveyed for its Cannabis Salary Guide said they would “expand hiring in core areas.” Humiston called 2024 “a turning point …