NOC 62201: Funeral directors and embalmers

Funeral directors coordinate and arrange all aspects of funeral services. Embalmers prepare the remains of deceased persons for public visitation and burial. Funeral directors and embalmers are employed by funeral homes.

Express Entry eligibility

• Skilled work (TEER 0 to 3): yes, TEER 2.
• Canadian Experience Class: counts as skilled Canadian work (1 year in the last 3 years).
• Federal Skilled Worker Program: counts as skilled work (1 year of continuous work in the last 10 years).
• Federal Skilled Trades Program: not one of the eligible trades.
• High-wage occupation (from November 3, 2026): no. No high-wage add-on, and a job offer in it earns no CRS points.

TEER 2: Occupations that usually need a college diploma, an apprenticeship of 2 or more years, or supervisory duties. Every program has other requirements too, such as language test results and, for FSW, a points test.

Category-based draws

NOC 62201 is not on any of IRCC’s occupation category lists. You can still be invited in general, Canadian Experience Class or other program draws.

Category lists checked on canada.ca on 2026-10-17. IRCC category-based selection

CRS points for work in NOC 62201

Skilled Canadian work in this occupation earns the standard points, the same before and after November 3, 2026, with no high-wage add-on:

See Canadian work points and the median-wage rule.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Funeral directors
• Consult with the family of the deceased regarding the nature of the funeral service, the disposition of the remains and funeral costs
• Transfer, or arrange for the transfer of, the remains from the place of death to the funeral home
• Inform survivors of benefits for which they may be eligible
• Issue death notices to newspapers
• Oversee the preparation of the remains, plan and schedule funeral services, coordinate burials and cremations and complete legal documents
• Discuss and negotiate prearranged funerals with clients
• Manage funeral home operations including hiring and directing staff, maintaining financial records, preparing accounts and ordering merchandise
• Supervise embalmers, funeral home attendants and other funeral home staff
• May perform same duties as embalmers.
• Embalmers
• Preserve, sanitize and prepare human remains for funeral services
• Perform cosmetic and restorative work on human remains
• Supervise funeral home attendants and other funeral home staff.

For Express Entry your duties must match the lead statement and most of the main duties above.

Example job titles

• apprentice embalmer
• embalmer
• funeral director
• mortician

Employment requirements

• Completion of a one- to two-year college program and a twelve- to twenty-month practical apprenticeship program during or following the educational program is usually required for funeral directors.
• Completion of a two- to three-year college program and a twelve- to twenty-month practical apprenticeship program during or following the educational program or completion of a three-year college program is required for embalmers.
• Funeral directors require licensure in most provinces and territories.
• Funeral directors may be required to be licensed embalmers depending on provincial requirements.
• Embalmers require licensure in all provinces.

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