As of June 2026, Embalmers has an AI-exposure score of 51/100 (Elevated exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Embalmers
More exposed than 35% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$58,780. About 600 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
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Your tasks, by AI exposure
No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (90%).
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- Clean and disinfect areas in which bodies are prepared and embalmed.
- Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
- Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
- Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
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