Personal Care and Service
Funeral Attendants
Perform a variety of tasks during funeral, such as placing casket in parlor or chapel prior to service, arranging floral offerings or lights around casket, directing or escorting mourners, closing casket, and issuing and storing funeral equipment.
Also called: Funeral Assistant, Funeral Associate, Funeral Attendant, Funeral Director, Funeral Greeter, Funeral Home Assistant
- Median pay in Greater Boston
- $48,110
- $23.13/hr
- Jobs in Greater Boston
- 680
- Massachusetts 2024–2034
- +0.7%
- 110 openings a year
- Typical U.S. entry requirement
- High school diploma or equivalent
- plus Short-term on-the-job training
Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.
Pay range in Greater Boston
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $31,300 | $38,600 | $48,110 | $57,120 | $70,720 |
10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.
What you’d do
- Greet people at the funeral home.
- Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned.
- Close caskets at appropriate point in services.
- Direct or escort mourners to parlors or chapels in which wakes or funerals are being held.
- Place caskets in parlors or chapels prior to wakes or funerals.
- Offer assistance to mourners as they enter or exit limousines.
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 exposure38 of 100
The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:
- AIOE 32
- Language-model AIOE 42
- GPTs-are-GPTs 41
Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)
AI exposure for this job is moderate, but observed AI use is little or none so far. Tools might help with scheduling and planning around a service. The core tasks are greeting families, escorting mourners, and placing and closing caskets, and those depend on people being present.
Likely to change
- Scheduling and service-plan coordination
- Keeping checklists for funeral equipment
Still relies on people
- Greeting and comforting grieving families
- Escorting mourners and handling caskets
Written with AI from the data on this page. Check with a career coach before making a decision.
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