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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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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