• Embalmers
  • Human Services
  • Annual Median Wage
    $ 50,750
    $39,430 range bar $75,350
    Annual NC Wage Range
    Growth Rate
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    Very Slow Growing
  • Embalmers prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

What do they typically do

  • Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers
  • Dress bodies and place them in caskets
  • Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using derma surgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax
  • Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs
  • 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
  • Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements are met

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