How to Research Salary Ranges and Benefits for a Mortician

Morticians earn a wide range of salaries in the United States, depending upon a number of factors. Median annual earnings are approximately $31,000.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet Access
• Career Counseling
• Computers

1. Become familiar with this field by checking out key Web sites, which you can find by searching the Web with keywords like "morticians" and "career."

2. Interview morticians, who are also called funeral directors or undertakers, to get an idea about salaries in your area.

3. Understand that your experience and the number of services you provide will play a large part in determining your earnings.

4. Realize that morticians with bachelor's degrees generally earn more than those with just a high school education.

5. Work in a large city in the Northeast and you will earn more than in a small town in the South.

6. Be ambitious and plan eventually to own at least one funeral home if you want to go into the six-figure salary range.

Tips & Warnings

• Work temporarily at a funeral home in any capacity to see if this can be a rewarding career for you.
• The hours are long and irregular in this field and include nights and weekends.
• Care must be taken at all times to avoid possible contact with contagious diseases.

[k3ith27]

on 10/23/2009 I have been a lisenced mortician for 4 years. I am 29 and live in a small midwest town with an aprrox population of 40,000. I make a salary of 45,000 a year. Fully paid medical and dental insurence ( I dont contribute a dime). I get a 1,000 dollar christmas bonus. 500 dollar bonus every couple of years for clothing expense. I work every other weekend and no thursdays. I am oncall every other night during the days I work. With the exception of the one thursday I am off just before the weekend I work, I do not work the nights prior to a day off. I live in the funeral home for free, I pay cable and internet. My coworker makes approx 75,000 a year however he has 15 more years experience then I. I primarily work as an embalmer, he on the other hand primarily conducts funerals and makes the arrangments with families as well as embalms occasionally. Hope this helps. Dont expect to make a lo...