How to become an Undertaker or Related Worker
Official title: Undertakers and Related Workers
Funeral and related workers arrange funerals and embalm and prepare the bodies of the deceased.
Main tasks
- Arrange and conduct funerals
- Suture, repair and reconstruct disfigured or badly injured bodies
- Embalm and apply cosmetics to bodies and place them in coffins
- Arrange death notices, help choose coffins and decide burial sites and funeral times
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: hospitality and personal services, other (1019). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 4, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 2, five-year junior college (五專) 5, two-year junior college (二專) 1. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Funeral services. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 203 喪禮服務. Tested at grade B (乙級), grade C (丙級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$602,000 a year
- Demand for Service and sales jobs is projected at about 2,220,000 in 2024 and about 2,287,000 in 2030. (+3%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Undertaker or Related Worker?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Funeral services.
How much does an Undertaker or Related Worker earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$602,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is an Undertaker or Related Worker a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 3% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of an Undertaker or Related Worker?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026