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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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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