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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Colorist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Colorist” 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%

“Colorist” 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.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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