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Funeral Home Managers pay in Rhode Island and South Carolina
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Funeral Home Managers is $122,150 per year in Rhode Island. It is $77,400 per year in South Carolina. Rhode Island is 57.8% above South Carolina on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 11-9171 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 120 wage and salary jobs in Rhode Island and 220 in South Carolina. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings