The single largest cost of running a funeral home comprises salaries, benefits and employment taxes. Together, they make up employee compensation. In the 1980s, when some casket companies spent $250,000 on their NFDA booth build-out and another million dollars on an extravagant cocktail party during the convention, the cost of goods was about 20% to 25% of revenue while compensation typically ranged from 26% to 40%.
Finding Calm After Loss How to Ease Grief Anxietyand Depression
For adults mourning a parent, partner, child, or close friend, the emotional impact of losing loved ones can feel like more than sadness. Grief after loss can quietly tighten into panic, sleeplessness, and constant dread, and then sink into depression from bereavement...