Guide
Inside the $6,280 funeral
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A funeral with a viewing and cremation is not one fee. NFDA builds the national median by adding the midpoint charge for each service below. Direct cremation leaves out the viewing, the ceremony, and embalming.
The lines below are the medians NFDA added to reach $6,280. Selecting a line shows its share of that total. Removing a line does not produce a quote.
39.7% of the $6,280 median is basic services of funeral director and staff, $2,495.
National price medians are from the NFDA 2023 General Price List Study, published in the 2024 NFDA Cremation & Burial Report. State cremation rates are that report’s 2025 projections, not a funeral home’s current price. A funeral home’s price is shown only after its own General Price List is published; no local price here is estimated. Sources and method