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Embalmers
Personal Care and Service · SOC 39-4011
0.0% AI Exposure — Low
$58,780
Median Annual Salary
Average
O*NET Outlook
700
Proj. Annual Openings
3,890
Employment (OEWS 2025)
0%/yr
Empl. growth (2019–2025)
100/100
AI Resiliency Score
AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.
Decision card
Career Evidence Passport
SOC 39-4011 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.
Proxy / seed data labeledDescriptive-only
- SOC exposure
- 0.0%
- Low · Anthropic AEI
- Automation friction
- 54/100
- Moderate friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
- Wages
- $58,780
- No H-1B offered-wage row for this SOC.
- Projected openings
- 700
- BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +1.3%.
- Observed/proxy demand
- —
- FY— certified LCAs; 815 postings in 2025.
Skill evidence
SpeakingActive ListeningWritingCritical ThinkingSocial Perceptiveness
Transition context
- H-1B values are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals.
- Job postings are seed-static / seed-derived; treat as provider-ready proxy coverage until observed provider data is wired in.
- Transition matches are directional skill-overlap context, not placement guarantees.
- This release is a FutureGrid broad-SOC seed derived from public BLS ORS requirement concepts and categories, not direct occupation-level ORS survey estimates. It describes job requirements, not worker ability, AI capability, or displacement probability. Automation friction is a FutureGrid derived score and should be read alongside exposure, demand, wage, and projection signals.
AI Exposure Analysis
AI Exposure0.0%
AI Resiliency100/100
Exposure BandLow
Sector Avg. Exposure2.1%
Across AI measures
Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.
16.7%
Consensus
Actual adoption · Anthropic0%
AI capability · OpenAI4%
AI ability · AIOE46.2%
Automation baseline (2013) · Frey & Osborne54%
Top Skills
1.Speaking
2.Active Listening
3.Writing
4.Critical Thinking
5.Social Perceptiveness
H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand
View full H-1B trends →No H-1B certified LCA filings recorded for this occupation in FY2016–FY2025.
O*NET occupation profile
What this work involves
Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
Common titles: Embalmer, Licensed Embalmer, Trade Embalmer
Representative Tasks
- •Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- •Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- •Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- •Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- •Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
Detailed Work Activities
- •Monitor operations to ensure compliance with safety or security policies or regulations.
- •Embalm corpses.
- •Apply makeup to alter or enhance appearance.
- •Clean facilities or equipment.
- •Clean work areas.
Tools & Technologies
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Related Occupations
Employment Projections & AI Exposure
15
Occupations Shown
1.6%
Avg AI Exposure
11
Bright Outlook
Horizontal bar chart showing occupations with the highest projected annual openings. Each bar length represents annual projected openings. Color uses a gradient from violet (lower) to cyan (higher). Summary statistics are shown above the chart.
Employment & Wage Trend
BLS OEWS, 2019–2025
Multi-year BLS OEWS history for SOC 39-4011: 2019 — employment: 3,890, median wage: $47,760; 2020 — employment: 3,860, median wage: $47,630; 2021 — employment: 4,070, median wage: $47,780; 2022 — employment: 3,950, median wage: $49,910; 2023 — employment: 3,380, median wage: $54,090; 2025 — employment: 3,890, median wage: $58,780.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). See /sources.
Sector Comparison
| Metric | This Career | Sector Average |
|---|---|---|
| AI Exposure | 0.0% | 2.1% |
| Outlook | Average | 52% Bright |
| Median Salary | $58,780 | N/A |
| AI Resiliency | 100/100 | N/A |