Funeral Director
ANZSCO 451311
3,000
23%
52%
52 yrs
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia · ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing.
Salary and some workforce figures are suppressed for this occupation because Jobs and Skills Australia / the ABS do not publish estimates for small populations (typically fewer than 50 employed people) or because the figures have been perturbed for privacy. They are shown as unavailable rather than zero.
About this career
Funeral Directors plan and coordinate arrangements for funerals according to the wishes of the deceased or their relatives.
What they typically do
- Interviews families and associates of deceased to assist with funeral arrangements such as selection of coffin, type of service and publication of death notices.
- Advise on funeral costs and welfare provisions.
- Collects bodies from mortuaries.
- Ensures death certificates have been issued, burial and cremation certificates processed and that other legal requirements are met.
- Prepares bodies for viewing and burial by washing, draining body fluids, applying padding and cosmetics, dressing bodies and placing them in coffins.
- Liaise with clergy, cemetery and crematorium staff.
- Co-ordinates movement of coffins and funeral cars, arranges floral displays and collects attendance and tribute cards.
- Arranges placement of coffins at funeral sites, and placing and adjusting of floral displays and lighting.
- Keeps records and accounts of transactions and services performed.
- May arrange construction of memorials and the disposal of ashes.
States and territories
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Qualification pathways
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