They get paid usually. Funeral or wedding (same difference) or whatever, they work to support the church and the lord. A church will always do a service for their members. They won't pass the tray but about any church service involves some donation usually after the fact. Same goes when the church women provide a meal. My church has a suggested donation for a meal depending upon the size. And we've been called on to provide a covered dish for them. All depends upon your relationship with the church. Some suggest leaving memorial donations to the church or other charity.
Same goes for a service at a funeral home. You have a favorite preacher but want the service at the home or gravesite or both, you can get him. He/she would expect some type of honorarium. At my FIL's funeral 12 years ago, I think the going price was about $50 or it may have been a $100. He has gas and expenses too.
Not to say that there aren't a few deadbeats around who would use the church and preacher.
I've never heard of a local ordinace regarding who pays them. Maybe local custom. But the state usually regulates them though. I don't think Missouri requires anything. My BIL buried his grandfather under an oak tree at the farm, no casket, funeral, or anything.
Some people pay a few hundred bucks for cremation and an urn and don't even do a funeral. I know a guy who had his ashes spread by airplane over his farm but he did have a funeral.
Funeral homes have a list of preachers, singers, and organists who they tap on when someone has no preference. They are paid. You can be sure the funeral home tacks something on extra for the set up but they could charge you their going rate.
My wife's uncle died 20 years ago in an out of town hospital. We knew he had the cash from his social security check on him and I inquired at the hospital. 2 nurses remembered counting the money and giving it to security. They couldn't find it in the safe. It took a couple days but they finally traced down the money after I kept after them. That was the side story, the main story was I asked about who picked up the body to see if there were any other bills. Hospital said a funeral home in that city picked him up. I called that funeral home and they said they picked him up and enbalmed him for about $175. They were being paid by the funeral home handling the funeral. The bill came and the embalming fee was $350. I pressed them about it and they said it was their standard fee whether they did it or someone else. Then they tacked on a fee and mileage to go get the body.
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