Funeral service jobs in Tennessee

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Funeral service jobs in Tennessee need a license, and two accredited schools in the state prepare people for it. John A. Gupton College in Nashville offers much of its program by distance learning, and Southwest Tennessee Community College runs the other in Memphis.

Your Tennessee association is Tennessee Funeral Directors Association, listed with its counterparts across the country in the association directory.

About Funeral service jobs in Tennessee

Tennessee candidates can also take the State Laws Examination from the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards. Past the license, the median in May 2025 was $46,180 for Tennessee's 550 morticians and $78,130 for its 430 funeral home managers. Embalmers are more than twice as concentrated in Tennessee as nationally. That comes to 5 live funeral service jobs in Tennessee, the largest share of them from Gpac, Park Lawn Corporation, and National Cemetery Administration, and Belle Meade, Cloverdale, and Henderson carrying the most. Where pay is stated it runs $60k to $192k a year, 20% are remote, and 20% are federal positions.