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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Color Tester” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Color Tester” 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 Tester” 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

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

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

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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