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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Formulator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Formulator” 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%

“Formulator” 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

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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