Occupation / job
Funeral Home Managers
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At $78,790 against a $50,020 midpoint, Funeral Home Managers pays $28,770 a year more than the typical American job — $13.83 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
13,910 people work as Funeral Home Managers. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
These management roles are usually reached by doing the underlying work first, so they suit people who want authority over a craft they already understand rather than management as its own career.
How long it takes to become one of the 13,910 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn below $61,890 and a quarter above $103,940: a 1.7x ratio, $42,050 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.
The bottom quarter of Funeral Home Managers earns $61,890 or more — $11,870 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.
Avoid it if you would find it hard to manage people you used to work beside as an equal.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 13,910 figure counts people already working as Funeral Home Managers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 1.7x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $78,790 as where you might be after years in Funeral Home Managers, and $61,890 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Funeral Home Managers runs $61,890 to $103,940 — $42,050 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $78,790.
The 75th percentile is $103,940. Reaching it from the $78,790 midpoint is $25,150 a year; reaching it from the $61,890 that the bottom quarter of Funeral Home Managers earn is $42,050.
The climb from $78,790 to $103,940 is $25,150, against $16,900 down to $61,890. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Funeral Home Managers is larger than the realistic downside.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $29.75 at the bottom quarter, $37.87 at the midpoint, $49.97 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $78,790 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Funeral Home Managers, the hourly figure is $78,790 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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