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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Paint Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Paint Technician” 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%

“Paint Technician” 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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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