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Newspaper notice cost calculator
See how much cash advance money runs through your firm for paid death notices, and what placing them costs you in staff wages.
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Calculators for independent funeral homes
Two free calculators that put honest numbers on the paid newspaper notice and on the staff hours behind every obituary you publish.
Directors carry a lot of numbers in their heads and rarely have a quiet hour to check any of them. These two calculators take about ninety seconds each and use figures you already know: how many calls you handle in a year, what the paper charges for a notice with a photograph, and how long your staff actually spend typing, proofing, and correcting an obituary.
Nothing you enter leaves your browser and nothing is stored. Use them before your next price list review, before your next staffing conversation, or before you decide whether the paid newspaper notice is still doing work that a shared service page cannot do for the families you serve.
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Obituary production time calculator
Add up the drafting, photo handling, proof rounds, and late service changes behind each obituary to see the real hours behind your published pages.
Working document
The obituary intake and publication checklist
A working checklist that takes an obituary from the arrangement conference table to a correct, shared, and archived service page.
Why these funeral home calculators are open to everyone
Directors already run this arithmetic on the back of a case folder. You add up what the paper charged the last eight families for a notice with a photograph, you divide a year of chapel, fleet, and licensing cost across the calls you actually took, and you guess at the minutes between the arrangement conference and a published service page. Nobody asks you to open an account before doing that on a legal pad, so nothing here asks either. No sign up, no email, no stored figures, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Each one is worth keeping even if you never speak to us again. The notice numbers give you something honest to say at the arrangement table when a family asks whether the paid newspaper notice still earns its place beside a shared service page. The production numbers give you a defensible answer when an owner wants to know why obituaries slip during a week with four removals and two visitations. Print the results, take them into your next general price list review, and use them however suits your firm.
Your notice spend and obituary hours, now what
If the wage cost of placing paid notices or the annual days spent on obituary production landed higher than you expected, that figure is the start of a conversation rather than the end of one. Ask for a short demo and we will show you which of those minutes a structured obituary intake removes, and which ones stay with your staff whatever tool you buy.