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.
13,910 people do this job in the US. $78,790 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 43%
- 33%
- 24%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 29%. Today's estimate: 33%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 23 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 20% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Complete and maintain records, such as state-required documents, tracking documents, or product inventories.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | 87%Half by now | |
| Sell funeral services, products, or merchandise to clients.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 1.3 h33 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Monitor funeral service operations to ensure that they comply with applicable policies, regulations, and laws.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Direct and supervise work of embalmers, funeral attendants, death certificate clerks, cosmetologists, or other staff.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Deliver death certificates to medical facilities or offices to obtain signatures from legally authorized persons.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Negotiate contracts for prearranged funeral services.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 h38 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Direct or monitor administrative, support, repair, or maintenance services for funeral homes.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Identify skill development needs for funeral home staff.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | 87%Half by now | |
| Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Schedule funerals, burials, or cremations.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Schedule work hours for funeral home or contract employees.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 50 min17 min to 1.7 h | 96%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
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