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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Matcher” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Matcher” 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 Matcher” 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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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