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Embalmers

Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

46 AI exposure
50 Human advantage
49 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Embalmers a safe career from AI?

Embalmers scores 46 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 50. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 49 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Embalmers pay

The median wage is $56,280 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,160 and the upper quarter over $64,760. About 3,420 people do this work in the United States.

Where Embalmers can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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