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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Maker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Maker” 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 Maker” 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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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