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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Mass Spectrometrist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Mass Spectrometrist” 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%

“Mass Spectrometrist” 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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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