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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst)” 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%

“Laboratory Analyst (Lab Analyst)” 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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