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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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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