Hours Per Work Week. Prosecutors are employees of state, local or federal government and are paid based on an eight-hour work day. According to the American Prosecutors Research Institute, however, many prosecuting attorneys are logging between 10-30 hours of overtime on a regular basis.ours Per Work Week. Prosecutors are employees of state, local or federal government and are paid based on an eight-hour work day. According to the American Prosecutors Research Institute, however, many prosecuting attorneys are logging between 10-30 hours of overtime on a regular basis.
As a result, actual cremation times vary from 60 minutes to more than 5 hours. In the cremation profession, it is widely stated that it takes about 2 hours to cremate an average body of 150 pounds in a cardboard cremation container.
The body is placed in a cremation container and burned in a cremation chamber at high temperatures. When the two- to three-hour process is complete, the remains are cleared of foreign objects and placed in the family's chosen container. 1  A Guide to Funeral Homes, Crematories, and Cemeteries.  How to Embalm a Body.