Undertakers and embalmers perform various tasks in the disposal of dead human bodies.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Undertakers and embalmers - from ₹16,515 to ₹79,749 per month - 2025.
- A Undertakers and embalmers typically earns between ₹16,515 and ₹44,360 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between ₹19,154 and ₹75,333 per month for a working week of 48 hours.
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Job Responsibilities
- Making arrangements for and conducting funerals, cremations and burials
- Embalming human remains to retard or arrest the process of decay
- Conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met
- Incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed human remains when necessary
- Dressing human bodies and placing them in caskets
- Conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations
