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Funeral Home Managers vs Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Funeral Home Managers and Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Funeral Home Managers Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$76,830
$49,800
Employment · BLS OEWS
13,120
25,700
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
57th pct
33rd pct

At a glance

Dimension Funeral Home Managers Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
Median pay $76,830 $49,800
Employment 13,120 25,700
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+4.1%) About average (+3.1%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 2,600 3,200
Typical education · O*NET Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Moderate · 57th pct Low · 33rd pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk — 21st pct · 17% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — Automation-leaning (50.0%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman — No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Customer and Personal Service, Administration and Management, English Language, Administrative, Service Orientation, Oral Comprehension, Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, Written Comprehension, Oral Expression, Written Expression, Reading Comprehension, Time Management, Problem Sensitivity, Near Vision, Speech Clarity, Sales and Marketing, Psychology, Personnel and Human Resources, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Judgment and Decision Making, Speech Recognition, Computers and Electronics, Monitoring, Coordination, Deductive Reasoning, Information Ordering, Complex Problem Solving, Biology, Writing, Persuasion, Negotiation, Instructing.

Specific to Funeral Home Managers

  • Economics and Accounting
  • Management of Personnel Resources
  • Education and Training
  • Mathematics
  • Category Flexibility
  • Law and Government

Specific to Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

  • Fluency of Ideas
  • Selective Attention
  • Philosophy and Theology
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Active Learning
  • Systems Analysis

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Presentation software , Electronic mail software , Word processing software , Data base user interface and query software , Human resources software , Internet browser software .

Specific to Funeral Home Managers

Specific to Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Funeral Home Managers or Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Funeral Home Managers vs Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/funeral-home-managers-vs-morticians-undertakers-and-funeral-arrangers

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Singulariki. (2026). Funeral Home Managers vs Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/funeral-home-managers-vs-morticians-undertakers-and-funeral-arrangers

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