Apply online and sign up today to become a cadaver dog trainer. While based in New York, Bear Search and Rescue travels around the country teaching trailing and cadaver courses. Their ability to pick up odors is a true superpower. According to Indeed.com, a K9 junior dog handler gets around $46.8K - $59.2K a year. In order to reduce any smell-based nausea that may arise, those in the lab will often place a strong smelling substance under their nose in order to block out the smell of the cadaver.

Drug dogs are trained on drugs, and cadaver dogs are trained on cadaver, says Mary E. Cablk, a scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada who studies scent detection.