Funeral Home Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($45,820) to the 90th ($132,470). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 13,120 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 1,500 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 22.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Rhode Island, whose location quotient of 3.04 says this work is 3.04 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $86,650 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($132,470) is 2.9 times the 10th percentile ($45,820), a gap of $86,650 a year. The mean of $85,650 sitting above the median of $76,830 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 46 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Connecticut at $125,660; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Funeral Home Managers stands number 639 by employment and number 242 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 28% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 24 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $76,830, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 710 jobs, 5.4% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $108,990 a year, against $108,990 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $6,402 a month before tax, $2,955 biweekly, $1,478 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($59,780) to the 75th ($99,330) is worth $39,550 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $84,513 would sit between the median ($76,830) and the 75th percentile ($99,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $59,780, is $17,050 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

Sibling occupations in Management Occupations: Advertising and Promotions Managers, Compensation and Benefits Managers, Postmasters and Mail Superintendents, Emergency Management Directors, Personal Service Managers, All Other, Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.