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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Consultant” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Consultant” 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%

“Color Consultant” 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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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