The average expense of a funeral in America today is in between $7,000-- $10,000 according to a national internet site that accumulated funeral rates from funeral chapels throughout the United States in 2015.The National Funeral Directors Organization had last videotaped a typical funeral price of $7,640 in 2019, in 2014 it was $7,181, so arguably funeral rates have not changed a lot over the last 5 years.