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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Wet Chemistry Analyst” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Wet Chemistry 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%

“Wet Chemistry 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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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