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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Analytical Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Analytical Technician” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Analytical Technician” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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  • Diffusion pumps
  • Exhaust hoods
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  • Automated microviscometers
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Reflux condensers
  • Pycnometers
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Test tube clamps
  • Claisen flasks
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Glass burets
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Laboratory balances
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Spectrophotometers
  • U-tube manometers
  • Personal computers
  • Heating mantles
  • Bell jars
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Prisms
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Mercury barometers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Agitation tanks
  • pH indicators
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Reaction flasks
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Pressure gauges
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Pirani gauges
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Filter pumps
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Viscosity meters
  • Turbidimeters
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Dye lasers
  • Canister gas masks
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Monochromators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Gas burners
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Single-pan balances
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Autotitrators
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Molecular stills
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Polarizers
  • Cork borer sets
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Sample crushers
  • Safety showers
  • Pull spring balances
  • Torsion balances
  • Coulometers
  • Voltmeters
  • Mainframe computers
  • Polarimeters
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Thermocouples
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Finger pumps
  • Westphal balances
  • Photo detectors
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Glass tubing
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Fluorimeters
  • Lyophilizers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Drying pistols
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Rheometers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Flame photometers
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Lecture bottles
  • Titrators
  • Desktop computers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Ball mills
  • Dessicators
  • Steam baths
  • Meker burners
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  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Cooling baths
  • Safety glasses
  • Hot air blowers
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Capillary tubing
  • Ionization gauges
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Safety goggles
  • Ammeters
  • Radiation detectors
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Mass spectrometers
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  • Water aspirators
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  • Electronic toploading balances
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  • Multimeters
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  • Velometers
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  • Comparators
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  • Volumetric flasks
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Photocells
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
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  • Utility clamps

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