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 known as: Funeral Director · Location Manager · Funeral Counselor · Funeral Home Owner · Funeral Home Director · Funeral Sales Manager
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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Most exposed task
Complete and maintain records, such as state-required documents, tracking documents, or product inventories.
Automatable 60/100 exposure
Most durable task
Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased.
Durable 10/100 exposure
Useful next step
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Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.
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Complete and maintain records, such as state-required documents, tracking documents, or product inventories.60
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Review financial statements, sales or activity reports, or other performance data to identify opportunities for cost reductions or service improvements.55
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Schedule work hours for funeral home or contract employees.50
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Set prices or credit terms for funeral products or services.45
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased.10
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Attend or make presentations at community events to promote funeral home services or build community relationships.15
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Deliver death certificates to medical facilities or offices to obtain signatures from legally authorized persons.20
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 34 puts Funeral Home Managers in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this level is about the mix: 1 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 8 augmentable, and 11 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.
Embalmers
17 ▼ 17 pts lower
Skill overlap ≈ 56% · Related O*NET role; Embalmers is an adjacent path (Elevated band).
Funeral Attendants
19 ▼ 15 pts lower
Skill overlap ≈ 72% · Related O*NET role; Funeral Attendants is an adjacent path (Moderate band).
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
24 ▼ 10 pts lower
Skill overlap ≈ 80% · Related O*NET role; Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers is an adjacent path (Elevated band).
Labor-market context
- $78,790median wage
- 13,910employed
- 2,600annual openings
- +4.0%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 20 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Automatable 1 task, averaging 60/100 exposure
- Augmentable 8 tasks, averaging 43/100 exposure
- Durable 11 tasks, averaging 25/100 exposure
score = (1×60 + 8×43 + 11×25) ÷ 20 ≈ 34
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (Moderate) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Funeral Home Managers
- Will AI replace Funeral Home Managers?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 34 mean for a Funeral Home Managers?
- It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 34 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- The highest-exposure tasks are: Complete and maintain records, such as state-required documents, tracking documents, or product inventories. Exposure comes from the published, rubric-scored data release rather than being generated when you open this page.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Offer counsel and comfort to families and friends of the deceased; Attend or make presentations at community events to promote funeral home services or build community relationships; Deliver death certificates to medical facilities or offices to obtain signatures from legally authorized persons. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 20 of 20 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology