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Funeral Home Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate the services or resources of funeral homes. Includes activities such as determining prices for services or merchandise and managing the facilities of funeral homes.

Also called: Arranging Funeral Director, Funeral Director, Funeral Home Location Manager, Funeral Home Manager, Funeral Home Owner, Funeral Service Manager

Median pay in Greater Boston
$80,790
$38.84/hr
Jobs in Greater Boston
180
Massachusetts 2024–2034
+2.3%
40 openings a year
Typical U.S. entry requirement
Associate's degree
Less than 5 years of related work experience

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$79,320$80,790$80,790$106,490$162,990

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d do

  • Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.
  • Schedule funerals, burials, or cremations.
  • Deliver death certificates to medical facilities or offices to obtain signatures from legally authorized persons.
  • Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased.
  • Monitor funeral service operations to ensure that they comply with applicable policies, regulations, and laws.
  • Direct and supervise work of embalmers, funeral attendants, death certificate clerks, cosmetologists, or other staff.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Moderate exposure65 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 55
  • Language-model AIOE 55
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 86

Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)

AI exposure for this job is moderate, and AI tools are rarely used in it today. Tools could help with scheduling, paperwork, and tracking rules and laws. Meeting with grieving families, giving comfort, and guiding them through hard choices are not tasks AI tools handle.

Likely to change

  • Scheduling funerals, burials, and cremations
  • Paperwork and compliance record-keeping

Still relies on people

  • Comforting families after a loss
  • Meeting families to plan services

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Training near Boston

College and school programs in the Boston metro area that lead to this job, with 2023-24 completions (IPEDS).

2 programs near Boston

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