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If you’ve always felt some kind of duty to the living, then the Undertaker career inThe Sims 4: Life & Deathmight just be for you. While other Sims venture into all things supernatural to help Grim reap souls, your Sim wants to make sure the dearly departed rest in peace.
With an emphasis on your physical skills no matter which track you choose, any athletic Sim who also fosters an interest in gardening, creative endeavors, logic, and their people skills may see themselves thriving in the Undertaker career. With such an emphasis on funerals, it only feels natural.
Updated on August 01, 2025:Now that we’ve got a little more tenure in our careers as Undertakers in The Sims 4: Life & Death, we’re back to update our guide to include a bit about those pesky career pop-ups and how they relate to your work as either a Mortician or a Funeral Director.
Undertaker Career Overview
While the Grim Reaper career, alsoadded with the Life and Death expansion, is a bit more hands-on,Undertaker is a standard rabbit hole careerthat sees your Sim head off to work and returning again at the end of their shift, which changes as they get promoted. There’s quite a bit of day-night shift switching at the earliest levels of the career, so beware the promotions that see your Sim head back to work a couple of hours after getting home.
Though it’s a rabbit hole career, you’re in forplenty of career pop-ups, more than we’ve seen in plenty of other careers of that kind. These often call on your Thanatology skill and curiosity about the dead, and your decisions along the way may lead you downbranching, mysterious pathsof lore as you progress in the career.
Splitting once you’ve earnedyour promotion to level fiveof the Undertaker career, you’ll be able to choose between theFuneral Director career trackif you’re interested in interacting with the living and helping to plan funerals and make them as memorable as they can be for the dearly departed, or the Mortician career trackif you’d prefer to work more directly with the dead andfocus on the sciencebehind death and dying.
Which Skills Do You Need, And Which Traits Work Best?
In general, you’ll need to work on yourCharisma, Fitness, Gardening skillsto start off the Undertaker career no matter which track you ultimately decide to pursue - you’ll need to reachlevel two Charisma,level five Fitness, and level four Gardeningbefore being able to choose a specialty at the fifth rank, so if you’re making someone new in CAS, it may be best to cover some element of these wherever possible with your Sims' traits.
Later in the career, in addition to pursuing the above skills further, you’ll also need to be building your Sim’sThanatology skill, one of the skills added in the Life & Death pack. This skill has all things to do withinvestigating deaths and all things to do with dying, so best to pick traits that don’t leave your Sim uncomfortable with the grim details.
If you’ve got a career track in mind, you’ll want different traits based on which your Sim is pursuing.Funeral directorswill need to continue to work on theirCharisma skillto expertly handle such delicate emotional situations that occur in funeral planning, whileMorticiansturn more towardthePainting skillto ensure the makeup on the bodies is always perfect for the viewings, as well asthe Logic skillto pursue the science behind death.
Because of all this, the following traits work best for Sims pursuing the Undertaker career:
In general, your Sims will need to stay relatively athletic, and there are plenty of Grim Reaper challenges that call on these skills and traits as well, so they’re well worth pursuing, especially if you want a few extra creepy prizes for your work in the Undertaker career.
Career Pop-Ups In The Undertaker Career
Not long into your time as an Undertaker in The Sims 4: Life & Death, you’ll no doubt stumble across apop-up about a broken gravewhile you’re at work, typically in the earliest levels of the career before you choose a specialty. When given the chance, your best bet is toinvestigate the gravea bit more. It not only gives you some Thanatology skill, but it also opens the door for more pop-ups later on.
If you’re not investigating this time it pops up,buying a new stone for the graveresults in a performance loss, while cleaning it the best you may instead results in a performance gain. These pop up repeatedly, so it’s a good way to get extra performance boosts at work after you’ve checked out the grave a time or two.
Once you’ve gotten into your specialization in the Undertaker career, you’llget a different series of pop-ups as you specialize in a branch. You’ll occasionally find traces of a soul left in bodies on your table and need tocontact Grim to finish the job. Outside that, you’ll also have a series of creepier pop-ups discussing hauntings, curious bodies, and more.
When you’re given a choice labeled as “An earlier choice provides insight” in these situations, this is because you’llneed to have investigated the broken graveat the earlier levels of the career. Throughout these chance card pop-ups in the Undertaker career, there are skill checks for your Fitness and Thanatology skills, as well as occasional requirements that your Sim become a ghost to finish the quest.
Sims that are still alive can take a swim in the Baleful Bog up in the Mourningvale district of Ravenwood. This allows you totemporarily become a ghostbefore returning to life, and going to work as a ghost works to fill this requirement.
Every Level Of The Undertaker Career
In the tables below, you’ll find information on each level of the Undertaker career in The Sims 4: Life & Death expansion. The career is a general one until itsplits when you’re promoted to rank five, and after that, you’ll be able to choose a specialization to start honing your craft more specifically. We’ve kept track of your schedule, pay rates, and daily requirements for each level in the Undertaker career.
§22/hour
§176/day
Monday-Friday, 9PM-5AM
§36/hour
§288/day
Monday-Friday, 9AM-5PM
§54/hour
§432/day
Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-6PM
§65/hour
§455/day
Monday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
§76/hour
§532/day
Wednesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM
§126/hour
Tuesday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM
§165/hour
§1,320/day
Thursday-Monday, 9AM-5PM
§203/hour
§1,624/day
Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM
§290/hour
§2,030/day
Friday-Monday, 11AM-5PM
§440/hour
§2,640/day
Monday-Friday, 10AM-6PM
§84/hour
§672/day
§108/hour
§864/day
§156/hour
§1,248/day
Tuesday-Saturday, 8AM-4PM
§210/hour
§1,680/day
Saturday-Thursday, 9AM-4PM
§288/hour
§2,016/day
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-3PM
§435/hour
§2,610/day
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Goals like planting something and talking about something specific complete the first time you complete them for the day - they’re some of the easier work daily tasks.
All Rewards And Items Unlocked In The Undertaker Career
As you get promoted through the Undertaker career, you’ll unlock a wealth of new CAS items, decorations, curious social interactions to make your conversations even creepier and more for your Sims to enjoy.
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On the whole, the Funeral Director career pays better, but only by §30, so it’s best to choose your career path as an Undertaker in The Sims 4: Life & Death based on your Sim’s other passions.
