Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers in Oklahoma
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,922
after federal, FICA and Oklahoma tax
Tax takes
$8,858
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,086
Oklahoma costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oklahoma — 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
$47,780
Kept after tax
$38,922
Worth in national money
$44,086
State rank
36
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Oklahoma pays this job a middle wage of $47,780, 36 of 48 states and about 13.14% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Oklahoma, this sits in the middle: 289 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Oklahoma is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $47,780 the take-home is $38,922; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $44,086 would nationally. The average comes to $56,510, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oklahoma's $47,780 median for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers places it 36 of 48 states, about 13.14% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers ranks 289 of 492 occupations in Oklahoma by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers in Oklahoma, on $47,780, is $38,922 — equivalent to $44,086 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $56,510 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,290 |
| This salary | $47,780 |
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 Oklahoma | $38,922 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,571 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,335 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $45,727 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,824 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
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 Oklahoma earn under $47,780 and half over. The published range runs $26,200 at the tenth percentile to $97,290 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 Oklahoma's $38,922, worked from $47,780. 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 289 of 492.
- Two cautions on $44,086, the adjusted value of that $47,780 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oklahoma. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 289 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers in Oklahoma, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $26,200 to $97,290; 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 Oklahoma take-home of $38,922, on $47,780 for work ranking 289 of 492 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 289 of 492 in the state.
- This $44,086 adjusted figure, worked from $47,780, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 289 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 289 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $56,510 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $26,200, the highest tenth $97,290, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $44,086.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Oklahoma then takes its own share, leaving $38,922.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Oklahoma is $56,510. 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 ($26,200) and the ninetieth ($97,290) 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?
Oklahoma'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 $44,086 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 $38,922 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oklahoma 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.