Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers pays $55,010 against $50,020 across all occupations, which is $415 a month ahead. A modest premium, and modest premiums are usually attached to modest requirements — check what this one is attached to.

25,100 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.

Funeral service suits people who can be composed and organised around other people’s worst week, repeatedly, and be available at hours nobody chooses.

We carry no verified training length for Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$42,430 to $72,010 — 1.7x, or $2,465 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

Even the bottom quarter, under $42,430, lands within $7,590 of the $50,020 typical American wage. The downside of Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers is not really the money.

Avoid it if you cannot be on call for the unscheduled, or if sustained proximity to grief would accumulate on you.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 25,100 people employed as Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.7x between $42,430 and $72,010 this is a normally shaped occupation. $55,010 is what the middle of Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

The middle half of this field earns between $42,430 and $72,010. That is $29,580 of range, with $55,010 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $72,010, the 75th percentile, is worth $17,000 a year more than the $55,010 midpoint and $29,580 more than the $42,430 a quarter of Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers settle for.

$17,000 separates $55,010 from the $72,010 top quarter, while only $12,580 separates it from $42,430. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $20.39 at the bottom quarter, $26.44 at the midpoint, $34.62 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.