Chemical Engineers

11% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): Occupations in this category have a low probability of being automated, as they typically demand complex problem-solving, creativity, strong interpersonal skills, and a high degree of manual dexterity. These jobs often involve intricate hand movements and precise coordination, making it difficult for machines to replicate the required tasks.

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Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Chemical Engineers' was $112,100, or $53 per hour

'Chemical Engineers' were paid 133.3% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

Comments

Melissa (No chance) 5 months ago

too hard to do and doesnt involve manual repeating tasks(i think)

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Adrian Quesada Paredes (Moderate) 11 months ago

Because over the years, it has been seen that technology is superior.

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JK (Low) 1 year ago

Being in the second year of Chemical Engineering, I feel certain factors of process development would require the assistance of AI, but not a complete takeover, as these machines cannot account in for human errors and other intricacies of designing plants

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Malcom 1 year ago

If a ChemE is skilled at concept-intitiation and development, he/she/they will be able to work together with AI, but I could see this job seeing cuts in the future once more productivity is leveraged through AI.

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CTB (Moderate) 1 year ago

Regardless of the difficulties that can be found in everyday problems, tasks like plant design can be fully automated based on location, requirements, and technologies to be applied. As well, many tasks for a plant can be partially automated, like auxiliary services, fire prevention, and update related documents.

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Jeremy Ibuprofen 4 years ago

CE is not to be taken over by robots as Shreyash Gadakh says it needs a human brain and an imaginative mind.

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Michi (No chance) 5 years ago

CE work requires creative ideas, problem solving mindset and out of the box thinking.

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Elbarqy 1 month ago

the same goes for computer programming, we just have enough data on the matter that's why it's very risky atm, when the attention shift to you, your job would be at risk, and software engineers would be the one automating this job.

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Kevin hsueh 4 years ago

I agree with you. Robots don’t have Brain to solve humanity problem. If the robot really takes our jobs . I think our human in earth whose intelligence will decrease because we don’t use our brain .

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