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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemistry Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemistry 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%

“Chemistry 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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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