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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 new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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