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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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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