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Embalmers
Also filed here: Embalmer, Mortician
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 0.7% more of these jobs by 2035, slower than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- Joint #685 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +0.7% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $58,780 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 3,900 in the US, with about 700 openings a year
The work, 15 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Embalm corpses36%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures13%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Move materials, equipment, or supplies10%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Apply hygienic or cosmetic agents to skin or hair8%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Monitor operations to ensure compliance with regulations or standards5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Arrange displays or decorations5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,323 conversations, and it got them there 65% of the time.
Still yours: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Apply decorative finishes4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,208 conversations, and it got them there 62% of the time.
Still yours: Maintain operational records4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Collect information about patients or clients3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Supervise personnel activities2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Maintain facilities or equipment2%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,312 conversations, and it got them there 95% of the time.
Still yours: Present information in legal proceedings1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Perform administrative or clerical activities1%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 171 conversations, and it got them there 89% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 101 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 700 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
- Shares 35% of the workMorticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers10% AI does, against 0% here+3% by 2035 · $55,010 · Associate’s degree
- Shares 31% of the workFuneral Attendants27% AI does, against 0% here+2.6% by 2035 · $35,680 · High school diploma
- Shares 31% of the workCrematory Operators16% AI does, against 0% here+3.1% by 2035 · $43,650 · High school diploma
The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Love front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.03, higher than 4% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 39-4011 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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