The legal U.S. cannabis market continued its upward trajectory in 2021, reporting a record 428,059 full-time equivalent jobs, as well as $24.6 billion worth of total cannabis sales, according to the 2022 Leafly Jobs Report.
That employment figure marks a 33% increase—or 107,000 jobs added—from Leafly’s 2021 report, and the fifth consecutive year the industry has shown annual job growth greater than 27%. Those jobs include “plant-touching jobs,” such as cultivation and retail sales, as well as ancillary jobs including accounting, human resources, regulatory compliance, security, and more.
