Costs

Costs are calculated by starting with the professional services fee then adding everything else required to it.

Professional Service Fee:

Our Professional Services fee is essential to enable us to provide services to you. This includes meeting with your family or representative to discuss detailed funeral options, dressing, attending to all necessary paperwork, attending the service, use of all necessary equipment and all office administrative and management costs.

At the bottom of this page we have an example of our estimate page to help get an idea of what your requirements are likely to cost. These costs include GST.

Baby or Child:

Professional services fee is $500 for up to 12 months or $1,000 for 1-10 years. See below for indication of additional costs. If a funeral service is not required, we may charge our time out at $80 per hour instead.

Direct Cremation (no service)

Professional Services fee is $2,132. The total estimated cost for a no service cremation including the professional services fee is $4,472. This includes everything required to have someone cremated, ashes returned and an official death certificate. (See Direct Cremation page for details)

Possible extras are: The Doctor’s fee (if there is one, which can vary from nothing or up to or over $300), viewings, mileage over 25kms from State of Grace branch, after hours, public holidays, Sundays and any additional nights in our cool room.

Direct Burial (no service)

Professional Services fee is $2,132.00. The total estimated cost for a no service burial, including transferring the deceased person into our care, attending to all the necessary paperwork, one night in our cool room, a basic casket, transferring them to the cemetery for burial, the digging fee and the death certificate is $$5,399.00.  Added to this is the Doctor’s fee (which can vary from nothing to over $300).  There are extra charges for viewings, mileage over 25kms from a State of Grace  branch, after hours, public holidays, Sundays, any additional nights in our cool room and casket upgrade if desired.

Please note, it is the responsibility of the client to purchase the burial plot prior to the burial taking place.

Memorial Service (after deceased has already been cremated or buried)

Professional Services fee is $1,200. See below for indication of additional costs.

Funeral Service

Professional Services fee is $3,100. See below for indication of additional costs.

 

 

 

 

Funeral or Memorial Service Additional Costs

Transfer Fee:

$350 – There will be an additional $275 charge for any transfers after 6pm and could also be an additional charge for transfers outside of the Auckland area (more than 25km from the State of Grace branch).

Embalming:

Average $850.  We are able to organise this service when necessary.

Cool Room:

$95 per night

Casket:

Casket from $660 for a liner.

We have an extensive range of locally produced natural caskets and shrouds, along with conventional caskets – see our casket page.

Doctor’s Fee:

This is usually a charge made by the doctor to provide the necessary medical documents. These costs can vary considerably and can be from $0 to over $300. The Doctor’s invoice is sent directly to us.

Medical Referee:

$60 – Necessary for cremation only.

Death Certificate:

$33 each with additional $7 for courier.

Cremation Fee:

From $785 – this varies between each crematorium.

Burial Fee:

This fee is for the digging of the grave and varies considerably between each cemetery. State of Grace do not purchase burial plots.

Viewings:

Family are welcome to come and sit with their loved one at our premises.

There will be a $250 per hour fee for viewings.

Newspaper Notice:

Average notice is $200

Hearse Hire:

$350

Flowers:

From $250 for a bouquet and from $300 for a casket bar.

Chapel Hire:

We encourage use of a wide range of community facilities for the service, including churches, council chapels, boating clubs, community halls, RSA etc and the cost varies.

Clergy:

From $250 – usually a donation is made directly between the clergy and the family.

Organist:

From $150

Celebrant:

From: $575 – We have a list of celebrants we can recommend. We endeavour to match each family with the most appropriate person for them, so please chat to us about this.

Livestreaming of Service:

The cost depends on the venue and what equipment is required.

Service Sheets:

These vary greatly depending on the style from either a simple bookmark to a several page booklet and how many are required. Costs for an A4 folded booklet in colour average at around $3.50 each.

Catering:

Usually a cost per head from $15.00

 

Sometimes a full funeral service is not held at the time of cremation or burial. Our professional services fee for assisting with arranging a memorial service is $1,200.