Self-employment method
Funeral Homes and Funeral Services
13,144 people filed as a nonemployer business under this industry code in 2022 — no payroll, no employees, just them. These are gross receipts reported to the IRS, before any expense is taken out.
Median GROSS RECEIPTS for the year — money in, before rent, materials, fuel, insurance or tax. This is not take-home pay.
Share who grossed under $10,000 for the whole year — before expenses.
The middle half, in gross receipts. A quarter of filers took less than the lower figure.
Source: US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
How often it does not work out
Of the 13,144 people who filed under this code in 2022, 49.09% grossed under $10,000 for the entire year — before a single expense was deducted.
That is a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes GROSS RECEIPTS, not net income. Everyone inside that share earned less than the figure suggests once rent, materials, mileage, insurance and self-employment tax came out — and filers who grossed well above the threshold may still have netted nothing. The true share of people who earn nothing meaningful from this is higher than the number above, never lower.
Denominator: establishments_total = 13,144 · US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
Every filer, by what they grossed
The full distribution Census publishes. The median above is interpolated inside the band that holds the 50th percentile.
| Gross receipts for the year | Filers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 4,083 | 31.1% |
| $5,000 to $9,999 | 2,369 | 18.0% |
| $10,000 to $24,999 | 2,534 | 19.3% |
| $25,000 to $49,999 | 1,317 | 10.0% |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 907 | 6.9% |
| $100,000 to $249,999 | 965 | 7.3% |
| $250,000 to $499,999 | 596 | 4.5% |
| $500,000 to $999,999 | 291 | 2.2% |
| $1,000,000 to $2,499,999 | 82 | 0.6% |
Who this suits
Median gross receipts of $10,710 put the typical filer somewhere between a serious side income and a failing attempt at a full-time one, and the receipts figure alone cannot tell you which.
At 13,144 filers this is a real but thin national population. There is no established price for Funeral Homes and Funeral Services at this scale, which cuts both ways: nothing anchors you low and nothing anchors you high.
A 14.7% share — 1,932 filers — grossed $100,000 or more. That is well above what most codes here manage, and it says the middle of Funeral Homes and Funeral Services is closer to a business than to a sideline.
This work suits people who are good at keeping a client for years rather than winning one once, because the retention is the business.
Nothing stops anyone filing under this code, and 13,144 people did. Free entry is why the lower bands are as full as they are: the distribution below counts everyone who tried, not everyone who was ready.
Who should not do this
Bottom quarter under $4,024, top quarter over $41,553: 10.3x, or $3,127 a month. At this stretch the label has stopped describing one occupation, and every summary statistic about it — including the midpoint — should be treated with suspicion.
The bottom quarter of Funeral Homes and Funeral Services earns under $4,024 — $45,996 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.
Do not start this on a lease you cannot cover from existing clients; the empty first months are the ones that end it.
49.1% of 13,144 filers in 2022 took under $10,000 across the entire year: 6,452 people. Close to half of everyone in Funeral Homes and Funeral Services is in that band, and gross receipts is the generous way of counting it.
That share is a floor, not an estimate: $10,000 is revenue, not earnings. Everyone counted inside it kept less than $10,000, and an unknown number of the filers above it also finished the year with nothing after costs.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 10.3x between the quarters is the signature of a winner-take-most distribution. $10,710 is a real number about a real population, but nobody entering Funeral Homes and Funeral Services should plan around it.
The middle half of this field earns between $4,024 and $41,553. That is $37,529 of range, with $10,710 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $41,553, the 75th percentile, is worth $30,843 a year more than the $10,710 midpoint and $37,529 more than the $4,024 a quarter of Funeral Homes and Funeral Services settle for.
The top quarter of Funeral Homes and Funeral Services begins $30,843 above the $10,710 midpoint, while the bottom quarter starts only $6,686 below it. A range stretched that far in one direction is the signature of a field where a small group earns a great deal more than the middle does.
Per hour of a full-time year, the middle of Funeral Homes and Funeral Services takes $5.14 in revenue — $1.93 at the bottom quarter and $19.97 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.
Straight from the Census bands for Funeral Homes and Funeral Services: 4,083 filers under $5,000, 2,369 between $5,000 and $9,999, 2,534 between $10,000 and $24,999, 1,934 above $100,000 and 969 above $250,000.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Every figure above is GROSS RECEIPTS, before expenses — money that arrived before rent, materials, fuel, insurance and self-employment tax. The $10,710 midpoint for Funeral Homes and Funeral Services is not take-home pay and is not comparable to a $10,710 salary.
The hourly number on this page is $10,710 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Funeral Homes and Funeral Services, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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