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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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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