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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Research Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Research Worker” 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%

“Chemical Research Worker” 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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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  • Fire extinguishers
  • Safety glasses
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Gas burners
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Voltmeters
  • Lyophilizers
  • Viscosity meters
  • Reaction flasks
  • Utility clamps
  • Steam baths
  • Rotameters
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Drying pistols
  • Personal computers
  • Molecular stills
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Titrators
  • Filter pumps
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Photocells
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Triple beam balances
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Infrared lamps
  • Ball mills
  • Differential refractometers
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Rheometers
  • Monochromators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Pirani gauges
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Reflux condensers
  • Ionization gauges
  • Heating mantles
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • Polarizers
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • pH indicators
  • Prisms
  • Ruby lasers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Desktop computers
  • Hydrometers
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Cooling baths
  • Meker burners
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Thermocouples
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Bunsen burners
  • Automatic burets
  • Velometers
  • Face shields
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Mainframe computers
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Lasers
  • Autotitrators
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Pull spring balances
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Dye lasers
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Fluorimeters
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Comparators
  • Graphing calculators
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Finger pumps
  • Capillary tubing
  • Single-pan balances
  • Turbidimeters
  • Safety gloves
  • Multimeters
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Polarimeters
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Pycnometers
  • Mortars and pestles
  • McLeod gauges
  • Cork borer sets
  • Flame photometers
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Pressure gauges
  • Immersion heaters
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Nebulizers
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Coulometers
  • Bell jars
  • Safety goggles
  • Claisen flasks
  • Ammeters
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Metering pumps
  • Sample crushers
  • Westphal balances
  • Torsion balances
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Safety showers
  • Water aspirators
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Photo detectors
  • Glass tubing
  • Distilling condensers
  • Evaporator rotators
  • U-tube manometers
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Radiation detectors
  • Test tube clamps
  • Glass burets
  • Tension gauges
  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Dessicators
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Buchner funnels
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Hot air blowers
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Homogenizers
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Mercury barometers
  • Lecture bottles
  • Agitation tanks
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Canister gas masks
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment

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