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Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Perform various tasks to arrange and direct individual funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, aiding with the selection of officials for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.

59 AI exposure
39 Human advantage
56 Market demand
50 AI leverage

Is Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers a safe career from AI?

Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers scores 59 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 39, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 56 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 Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers pay

The median wage is $49,800 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,470 and the upper quarter over $67,140. About 25,700 people do this work in the United States.

Where Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Administrative Services Managers 89% of the skills carry over $108k median
Funeral Home Managers 91% of the skills carry over $77k median
Nurse Anesthetists 79% of the skills carry over $223k median
Wind Energy Operations Managers 81% of the skills carry over $137k median

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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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