Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,493
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$15,107
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,124
Illinois costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Illinois — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$69,600
Kept after tax
$54,493
Worth in national money
$55,124
State rank
3
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Illinois's middle earner gets $69,600, putting the state 3 of 48 — about 26.52% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 197 among 494 occupations Illinois publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $69,600 the take-home is $54,493, which is worth about $55,124 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $74,280, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers, Illinois sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $69,600, ranking 3 of 48 and running about 26.52% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 197 of 494 in Illinois places morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Illinois's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers on its $69,600 median: $54,493 retained after tax becomes $55,124 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $74,280 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,570 |
| This salary | $69,600 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Illinois | $54,493 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,794 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,349 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $65,107 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,646 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers in Illinois earn under $69,600 and half over. The published range runs $42,740 at the tenth percentile to $104,570 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Illinois's $54,493, worked from $69,600. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 197 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Illinois, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $55,124, the adjusted value of that $69,600 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 197 of 494 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers in Illinois, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $42,740 to $104,570; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Illinois take-home of $54,493, on $69,600 for work ranking 197 of 494 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 197 of 494 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Illinois, so $55,124 — the adjusted value of that $69,600 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 197 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $74,280, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $42,740 and the top tenth $104,570 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Illinois is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $55,124 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Illinois's own levy, $54,493 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Illinois is $74,280. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,740) and the ninetieth ($104,570) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Illinois's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $55,124 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $54,493 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Illinois income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.