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SOC 19-4021
Biological technicians assist biological and medical scientists: set up and operate and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, make observations and compute and record results, and may analyze organic substances such as blood and food and drugs; common work includes carrying out biological or microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses according to standard operating procedures, isolating and identifying and preparing specimens to be tested, setting up and calibrating and maintaining and troubleshooting equipment, keeping detailed work logs, entering data into databases and analyzing data and writing reports and summaries of conclusions, and providing technical support to scientists and engineers in fields such as agricultural and environmental science or resource management. The U.S. side corresponds to O*NET 19-4021.00 (Biological Technicians), which is Job Zone Four (considerable preparation needed); the wage and employment and industry data on this occupation's page are all given in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation, and this page publishes according to the page values with the data period labeled at every occurrence. On the mainland China side only industry and broad-scope statistics are available, and no occupational wage entry precisely corresponding to this occupation was obtained, so according to the evidence standard this page publishes no mainland China wage figures and retains a visible gap marker, without passing off industry averages as an occupational median; experiments and biological and chemical safety in mainland China are subject to the Biosecurity Law of the People's Republic of China and the Regulations on the Safety Administration of Hazardous Chemicals and other provisions.
Model impact index for three equally weighted representative core tasks; not a measured share of working time or a job-loss probability. floor((0+75+25)/3+0.5)=33; fermatmind-ai-impact-v1; 2026-10-18.
One sentence: this is a technical position centered on samples and instruments and data records that assists research and testing under biosecurity and quality and reproducibility requirements; the core is setting up and operating and maintaining instruments, monitoring experiments and collecting data and samples, computing and recording results and handing over truthfully, not the imagination of biology; its U.S. wage and employment and industry data are all given in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation with labels at every occurrence; on the mainland China side no nationally comparable wage scope corresponding one-to-one to this occupation was obtained, and this page publishes no mainland China wage figures and visibly marks the gap as insufficient evidence.
Occupational identity and scope must be checked separately: O*NET lists 19-4021.00 (Biological Technicians) as Job Zone Four (considerable preparation needed), and the education composition on that page lists, according to position differences, that some positions require a bachelor's degree, some require a high school diploma or equivalent, and some require some college education without a degree (the page gives no percentages for these); the interest code is CRI (Conventional-Realistic-Investigative). The wage, employment and industry data on this occupation's page are all given on the O*NET page in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation: the annual wage percentiles are 40,330 USD at the 10th percentile, 48,130 USD at the 25th percentile, a median of 57,510 USD, 71,520 USD at the 75th percentile and 84,940 USD at the 90th percentile; the hourly wage percentiles are 19.39, 23.14, 27.65, 34.39 and 40.84 USD; the employment trends page gives 82,700 employed in 2024 and about 85,600 in 2034 (4% for 2024 to 2034, labeled average), with 9,100 job openings per year on average over the projection period; the industry distribution is professional scientific and technical services 38%, educational services 23%, government 15%, health care and social assistance 11%, and other industries including manufacturing 13%. On that basis this page publishes in the scope for this occupation with the data period labeled at every occurrence. Education, vocational training, industry certification, employer hiring and position and equipment and sample and animal and chemical operation authorization, and the requirements of the applicable jurisdiction for biosecurity and laboratory safety and laboratory animal welfare are different states and must be verified item by item according to institution and position and jurisdiction. On the mainland China side, no nationally comparable wage scope corresponding one-to-one to this occupation was established in this round, and this page publishes no mainland China wage figures and only retains a visible gap marker.
Career direction comparison
The table below compares biological technicians with five adjacent directions on the same set of dimensions: occupational direction, core work and outputs, key differences, and which choice suits each preference.
| Career direction | Core work and output | Key differences | Best-fit choice |
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| Biological technicians and bioinformatics scientists | Complete computational methods and statistical inference, with outputs mainly in analysis workflows and methods and papers. | Bioinformatics scientists take question and hypothesis setting and method and statistical inference as their main object and decide the computational strategy at the level of the research question; biological technicians take operating instruments according to standard operating procedures and monitoring experiments and recording data as their main object and do not take on research design and conclusion determination. | If you would rather define research questions and analysis methods, compare bioinformatics scientists first; if you would rather make experiments stable and accurate and record truthfully, then this occupation suits you. |
AI impact on this career
The sources read in this round do not provide a standalone GenAI adoption rate, an overall substitution rate or a disappearance year for this occupation. Organizing ledgers/literature/report drafts is an editorial assistive scenario, automatic instrument collection/robotics does not equal generative AI, and real sample operations and experimental safety responsibility are borne according to institutional authorization. AI Impact Score 33% is an editorial estimate. Model impact index for three equally weighted representative core tasks; not a measured share of working time or a job-loss probability. floor((0+75+25)/3+0.5)=33; fermatmind-ai-impact-v1; 2026-10-18.The three tasks, ratings and sources are listed in the FermatMind method source record on this page.
FermatMind AI Impact Score estimation method v1
FermatMind / 费马测试 · 2026-10-18
Chinese mainland salary reference
The U.S. occupation is 19-4021.00; Chinese positions are identified according to the actual research, testing, production or clinical duties. No statistical equivalence was established in this round, and the science/education industry references and the precise occupational gap are listed separately.
This round did not verify a one-to-one mapping between 19-4021.00 and a Chinese detailed category, and the occupational classification introduction does not prove a standalone wage entry.
Insufficient evidence: no Chinese national occupational median, starting salary, wage percentiles or city range was obtained; matched real industry references are listed separately.
NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions.
U.S. wage reference
Direct answer: the values given on this page are in the O*NET 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation; what can be checked are the query entry point, the scope labels and the data period, and the specific values queried by region and period.
| Wage statistical position | Annual wage reference | Conversion boundary | How to understand this position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest 10% | 40,330 USD/year (10th percentile) | Official annual wage, not an individual monthly income | The 10th percentile is an annual wage of 40,330 USD (19-4021.00 scope for this occupation); this is the low end of the distribution, does not represent all newcomers, and does not constitute an income promise. |
| Median (50%) | 57,510 USD/year (median) | Official annual wage, not an individual's take-home pay |
Occupational fit guide
Editorial checking suggestions: direct answer: observable work behaviors include being willing to trace every data point back to the sample and instrument and record, being able to keep records consistent when equipment fails or results are anomalous, handling anomalies according to procedure and leaving a trail, and handing biosecurity and animal disposal and reporting issues beyond one's authorization to authorized people; relying on liking biology or being able to use a pipette alone cannot decide it.
You may be better suited to： You can prepare and operate and monitor according to standard operating procedures, can truthfully record samples and instruments and data and keep them reproducible, can stop and review and report when equipment fails or results are anomalous or samples are contaminated or something is beyond your authorization, and accept review and correction.
These situations require caution： You only want to produce results and are unwilling to trace samples and instruments and records; you treat producing results first and adding records later as acceptable; or you skip training and approval on biosecurity and chemicals and animal welfare and human-related samples; situations requiring caution also include difficulty adapting to repetitive tasks and time pressure and protective equipment.
Do an entry practice exercise： Write a fictional experimental record: including the experimental purpose and samples and safety requirements, instruments and reagents and supplies and lots, observations and readings and anomalies and deviations, and review and re-measurement and handover and log requirements, and ask an experienced person to review it and record the reasons for changes. This does not constitute any practice for circumventing regulation, nor does it replace applicable jurisdictional and institutional system requirements.
Work pressure, risks and occupational boundaries
Direct answer: key risks include crossing biosecurity and pathogenic microorganism operation boundaries, compliance risks for human-related samples and biological data, non-reproducible samples and data and records, automated collection and system output being treated as conclusions, hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and occupational exposure load, and the external reporting and transfer of samples and results beyond authorization; the control approach is to work first within the authorized biosecurity and laboratory quality and ethics scope and carry out risk identification, handle pathogenic microorganisms and chemicals and animals and human-related samples according to procedure and retain records, truthfully record samples and instruments and reagents and lots and data and anomalies, hand over results and provide samples within the authorized scope, and stop and escalate when beyond authorization or when anomalies are found.
The 18 tasks and 57 context items have been read: precision extremely important 61%, common protective equipment daily 85%, consequences of error extremely serious 33%, daily hazardous conditions 13%, contaminants 33%, minor burn/cut/bite/sting exposure situations 20%. These are respondent answers rather than disease rates or the proportion actually injured each day. Legal application follows the real pathogen, sample and chemical activity.
Getting started, qualifications and career development
The O*NET2026 new-hire education field lists bachelor's, high school or equivalent, and some college education without a degree, none with percentages, and this is not the education composition of current practitioners. Job Zone Four/SVP7 to under 8 describes the preparation level and cannot be used to infer a fixed number of training years for an individual. The 4,195 training directory items are based on the IPEDS2025—26 directory and 2024—25 degree-award records, not real-time enrollment or occupation-specific courses. The CareerOneStop related directory has 18 items, including BCSI specialized skills, AFS fisheries, NREP environment and AALAS laboratory animal technologist certification; a directory hit is not a general hiring threshold for this occupation or a Chinese national qualification. The detailed page lists 4 example titles that are industry-reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for use in registered apprenticeship programs: upstream and downstream biomanufacturing technician, Dairy Technologist, microbiological quality control technician; these are not 4 currently open employer programs, and quotas, pay and enrollment conditions were not verified. Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one.
Occupational outlook and related occupation transitions
U.S. 19-4021.00 this occupation: 74,400 employed in 2025, projected 79,900 in 2035; 7% growth from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with 9,400 average annual openings (including growth and replacement). The figures are already rounded, and simple subtraction cannot be used to recompute a precise growth rate; these are not a Chinese trend, an individual hiring rate or a GenAI causal projection.
United States · exact
74,400 people (2025 U.S. this occupation)
Employment scale (this occupation's scope)
This is the number of people employed given by the O*NET employment trends page in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation; recruitment demand at an individual institution or in a region may differ greatly from the national scope.
Does not establish：The scope and data period differ and cannot be mixed, nor can they be used to estimate a broader occupational group.
Assist biological and medical scientists: set up and operate and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment; monitor experiments; collect data and samples; make observations; and calculate and record results; may analyze organic substances such as blood and food and drugs. Common work includes conducting or assisting experiments and collecting samples such as blood and water and soil and plants; recording production and test data for researchers to evaluate; examining animals and specimens to detect disease or other problems; entering data into databases; isolating and identifying and preparing specimens to be tested; monitoring whether laboratory work complies with established standards; keeping detailed work logs; using computers and computer interface equipment or robotics or high-technology industrial applications; weighing and preparing compounds and solutions for testing or animal feed; cleaning and maintaining and preparing supplies and work areas; setting up and adjusting and calibrating and cleaning and maintaining and troubleshooting laboratory and field equipment; carrying out standardized biological or microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses; ordering laboratory equipment and supplies; participating in the research and development or production of drugs and formulations; feeding livestock or laboratory animals; analyzing experimental data and writing reports and summaries of conclusions; carrying out or supervising operational projects such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses and livestock production; and providing technical support to scientists and engineers in fields such as agricultural and environmental science or resource management.
Choose a real task from this page for a small practice project or a conversation with someone in the field. Use the planning guides to set a date, an output and feedback questions before deciding whether to continue.
Signals to keep exploring: you are willing to trace a data point back to the sample source and instrument state and record version; you can travel back and forth among the bench and equipment and records over long periods and keep things reproducible; when results deviate or equipment is anomalous or controls fail you are willing to review first and record truthfully rather than picking the data that are usable; you are willing to stop and report first when biosecurity and hazardous chemicals and pathogenic microorganisms are involved or your authorization is exceeded.
Conditions for pausing your investment first: you have not yet completed, under any supervised condition, one full closed loop of confirming the task and constraints, checking samples and data, setting up and operating instruments, observing and recording, reviewing results, and handing over with a trail, or you can only explain your interest by liking biology or being able to use a pipette; nor should you treat having done a laboratory course or being able to use one instrument as proof that you can independently decide the experimental plan or independently handle pathogenic microorganisms and hazardous chemicals and laboratory animal welfare. Biosecurity and chemicals and animal welfare and human-related samples must be handled in accordance with the applicable jurisdiction and competent authorities and institutional systems and records must be retained; this page does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation.
One-sentence judgment: biological technicians are not operators who just press buttons, but a technical support position that assists biological and medical scientists and makes experiments stable and accurate: set up and operate and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, observe and compute and record results, conduct or assist in research (including collecting samples of blood and water and soil and plants), record production and test data for researchers to evaluate, examine animals and specimens to detect disease or other problems, enter data into databases, isolate and identify and prepare specimens to be tested, monitor whether laboratory work complies with established standards, keep detailed work logs, use computers and computer interface equipment or robotics or high-technology industrial applications, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for testing or animal feed, clean and maintain and prepare supplies and work areas, set up and adjust and calibrate and clean and maintain and troubleshoot laboratory and field equipment, carry out standardized biological or microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses, order laboratory equipment and supplies, participate in the research and development or production of drugs and formulations, feed livestock or laboratory animals, analyze experimental data and write reports and summaries of conclusions, carry out or supervise operational projects such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses and livestock production, and provide technical support to scientists and engineers in fields such as agricultural and environmental science or resource management; people who only want ready-made conclusions and are unwilling to trace samples and instruments and records, unwilling to work according to biosecurity and chemical and protective equipment rules, and unwilling to stop, review and report first when data are anomalous or equipment fails or something is beyond their authorization are not suited to it.
Biological technicians (U.S. side O*NET 19-4021.00, Biological Technicians) assist biological and medical scientists, and the original official responsibility text is 'Assist biological and medical scientists. Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, make observations, and calculate and record results. May analyze organic substances, such as blood, food, and drugs.' (assist biological and medical scientists; set up, operate and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, make observations, and calculate and record results; may analyze organic substances such as blood and food and drugs). The official O*NET tasks total 18 items, including conducting or assisting in research and collecting samples such as blood and water and soil and plants, monitoring and observing experiments and recording production and test data for researchers to evaluate, examining animals and specimens to detect disease or other problems, entering data into databases, isolating and identifying and preparing specimens to be tested, monitoring whether laboratory work complies with established standards, keeping detailed work logs, using computers and computer interface equipment or robotics or high-technology industrial applications, weighing and preparing compounds and solutions for testing or animal feed, cleaning and maintaining and preparing supplies and work areas, setting up and adjusting and calibrating and cleaning and maintaining and troubleshooting laboratory and field equipment, carrying out standardized biological or microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses, ordering laboratory equipment and supplies, participating in the research and development or production of drugs and formulations, feeding livestock or laboratory animals, analyzing experimental data and writing reports and summaries of conclusions, carrying out or supervising operational projects such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses and livestock production, and providing technical support to scientists and engineers in fields such as agricultural and environmental science or resource management. This occupation is Job Zone Four in O*NET (considerable preparation needed), with an interest code of CRI; the page sample titles include Biological Science Lab Tech and Biological Science Tech and Biologist Aide and Biologist Technician and others. The wage and employment and industry data on this occupation's page are all given in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation; this page publishes according to the page values with the data period labeled at every occurrence. Experiments and biological and chemical safety in mainland China are subject to the Biosecurity Law of the People's Republic of China and the Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals (effective from May 1, 2026) and other provisions; this page only cites their scope of application and boundaries of conduct.
The work of biological technicians can be divided into three categories: laboratory operations and monitoring (set up and adjust and calibrate and clean and maintain and troubleshoot laboratory and field equipment; carry out biological or microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses according to standards; weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for testing or animal feed; isolate and identify and prepare specimens to be tested; monitor and observe experiments and record production and test data; clean and maintain and prepare supplies and work areas; feed livestock or laboratory animals when necessary); data and records and compliance (enter data into databases; keep detailed work logs; analyze experimental data and write reports and summaries of conclusions; monitor whether laboratory work complies with established standards; examine animals and specimens to detect disease or other problems; use computers and computer interface equipment or robotics or high-technology industrial applications); and research support and collaboration (conduct or assist in research and collect samples of blood and water and soil and plants; participate in the research and development or production of drugs and formulations; order laboratory equipment and supplies; carry out or supervise operational projects such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses and livestock production; and provide technical support to scientists and engineers in fields such as agricultural and environmental science or resource management). What the three categories share is writing sample sources and instrument states and record versions clearly, rather than taking the desired results first and adding the conditions afterwards.
Laboratory operations and monitoring
This occupation assists scientists and operates, observes and records. Bioinformatics technicians use bioinformatics tools to process molecular data and may maintain databases; clinical technicians perform routine tests; chemical technicians perform chemical/physical tests; calibration technicians measure and calibrate; agricultural technicians assist crop and animal research and sampling; cytogenetic technologists analyze chromosomes to support diagnostic research; molecular and cellular biologists study cells and molecules/organelles, and microbiologists study microbial characteristics. The transition ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the adjacent list is not used to prove that transitions are easy.
| Dimension | Primary track | Comparison track |
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| Core purpose | Carry out experiments according to standard operating procedures and leave records explaining the sample sources and handling, instruments and reagents and lots, observations and anomalies and deviations, and the parts needing re-measurement or review, so that colleagues and reviewers can reproduce and review on that basis. | Reproducible data and samples and records |
| Main objects and basis | The objects are biological samples and laboratory instruments and experimental data, as well as the logs and calibration and anomaly records that support the conclusions; the basis is the institution's laboratory quality and biosecurity and chemical management and animal welfare procedures, the standard operating procedures and instrument manuals, and the regulatory requirements of the applicable jurisdiction for biosecurity and laboratory safety and laboratory animal and human-derived sample management. |
Write the experimental purpose and sample requirements and biosecurity level clearly with the researchers, and state the available equipment and supplies and the authorization boundary in advance.
Set up and calibrate and operate instruments and prepare samples according to standard operating procedures, monitor the experimental process and collect data and samples truthfully.
Keep detailed work logs and enter data into databases, review controls and replication and deviations first, and mark the parts needing re-measurement or review.
Clean and maintain and troubleshoot laboratory and field equipment according to procedure, and truthfully record instrument states and calibration and repair situations.
Compute and organize results and write reports and summaries of conclusions, hand over samples and data and records according to procedure, and do not exaggerate or selectively report results.
When pathogenic microorganisms or hazardous chemicals or laboratory animals or human-related samples are involved or something is beyond your authorization, report and hand over according to the authorization chain and do not handle it on your own.
Before onboarding, verify at least six items: occupational scope and employer entity (O*NET 19-4021.00 is the U.S. scope, and the wage and employment and industry data are all in this occupation's scope); education and training (this occupation is Job Zone Four and most positions require a bachelor's degree); industry certification (the page shows 18 related certification directory records (not Chinese national qualifications)); employer hiring and the scope of position authorization (whether it includes pathogenic microorganism operations and animal disposal and result reporting); the requirements of the applicable jurisdiction for biosecurity and laboratory safety and chemicals and laboratory animal welfare; and the terms of employment and pay basis (full-time and project-based and shift work and contract term and performance structure).
| Biological technicians and bioinformatics technicians | Complete data retrieval and scripts and database maintenance, with outputs mainly in datasets and scripts and query records. | Bioinformatics technicians take the retrieval of biological data and scripts and database maintenance as their main object; biological technicians take laboratory samples and instruments and experimental data as their main object and need to handle wet-lab and sample and equipment conditions. | If you would rather do data and scripts and database maintenance, compare bioinformatics technicians first; if you would rather do sample and instrument and laboratory operations, then this occupation suits you. |
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| Biological technicians and medical and clinical laboratory technicians | Complete clinical specimen testing and result reporting, with outputs mainly in test results and reports. | Medical and clinical laboratory technicians take clinical specimen testing and result reporting as their main object and are constrained by clinical testing quality and reporting systems; biological technicians take samples and instruments and data in research and testing contexts as their main object. | If you would rather do clinical specimen testing and result reporting, compare medical and clinical laboratory technicians first; if you would rather do samples and instruments in research and testing contexts, then this occupation suits you. |
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| Biological technicians and chemical technicians | Complete chemicals and chemical analysis and synthesis, with outputs mainly in chemical analysis results and records. | Chemical technicians take chemicals and chemical analysis and synthesis as their main object; biological technicians take biological samples and biological and microbiological and biochemical testing as their main object and need to consider the viability of biological materials and contamination control at the same time. | If you would rather do chemicals and chemical analysis, compare chemical technicians first; if you would rather do biological and microbiological and biochemical testing, then this occupation suits you. |
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| Biological technicians and calibration technicians | Complete measuring equipment calibration and traceability, with outputs mainly in calibration certificates and uncertainty records. | Calibration technicians take the calibration of measuring equipment and uncertainty and traceability as their main object; biological technicians take laboratory equipment and samples and data as their main object and need to consider measurement traceability and analytical quality at the same time. | If you would rather do measuring equipment calibration and uncertainty, compare calibration technicians first; if you would rather do laboratory samples and instruments and data, then this occupation suits you. |
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| Biological technicians and natural sciences managers | Complete research organization and resource and compliance management, with outputs mainly in management plans and budgets and compliance records. | Natural sciences managers take research organization and personnel and budget and compliance management as their main duty and do not take on day-to-day experimental operations; biological technicians take carrying out experimental operations and monitoring and recording according to procedure as their main object. | If you would rather do research organization and personnel and budget management, compare natural sciences managers first; if you would rather do experimental operations and recording, then this occupation suits you. |
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All six directions share laboratory and record common sense, but the core objects, delivery results, qualifications and authorization requirements differ; the same laboratory experience cannot be directly converted into the authorization or reporting scope of another direction (for example, whether clinical reporting and biosecurity level operations and animal disposal are borne differ considerably), and this page only compares the differences in duties under public scope.
Conclusion: the basis for choosing a direction is the core object and delivery results and biosecurity and reporting and authorization requirements, not whether the work is in a laboratory or the life sciences; once the direction is set, verify item by item the actual education and training and certification and laboratory and biosecurity authorization requirements of the target direction.
Editorial ratings use the existing occupational responsibilities and AI task analysis on this page. They are not adoption rates, measured effects, job-disappearance or personal-unemployment probabilities, or official scores from Stanford or another external institution. No measured time weights or future robot deployment are assumed.
Editorial suggestion: test literature, ledger or report drafting with fictional/isolated data, and only deliver after checking numbers, units, citations, versions and anomalies. Leaked human-derived data, destroyed samples or erroneous external reports cannot be promised to be rollback-able. Instrument structured automation and GenAI are validated separately, and actual sample operations and reporting authority are borne by the institution.
It depends on the institution's laboratory automation and data system maturity, the quality and biosecurity and ethics review arrangements, and information security and authority management; this page does not speculate about the pace of adoption and has no adoption rate statistics for this occupation.
Task exposure, actual adoption, experimental effects and employment changes must be measured separately; U.S. 19-4021.00 this occupation: 74,400 employed in 2025, projected 79,900 in 2035; 7% growth from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with 9,400 average annual openings (including growth and replacement). The figures are already rounded, and simple subtraction cannot be used to recompute a precise growth rate; these are not a Chinese trend, an individual hiring rate or a GenAI causal projection.
| Work area | Task | Current change | Human control point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experiment and sample authorization boundary | Check the sample source and authorization and biosecurity level against your own authority, and when pathogenic microorganisms and hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and human-related samples are involved, complete training according to the system and obtain the corresponding authorization. | Institutional and regulatory materials can use tools, but the compliance and safety judgments and authorization responsibility still rest with the person themselves and the institution. | Judge whether this experiment is within the institution's laboratory quality and biosecurity authorization scope. |
| Preparation and operation and monitoring | Set up and calibrate instruments and prepare samples according to standard operating procedures, monitor the experiment and collect and record data truthfully, and keep the basis and implementation process together. | Entry and collection and organization can assist, but the operation and observation judgments still rest with the person themselves and the reviewers. | Judge whether the experimental purpose and samples and safety level of this round are clear and whether the equipment and supplies and authority support the method to be used. |
| Result review and re-measurement | Review results with standard methods and controls and replication, review and re-measure anomalies first, and record instruments and reagents and lots and manual handling traces. | Summarizing and visualization can use tools, but responsibility for judging result usability and for review still rests with the person themselves. | Judge whether the data and samples are usable and whether anomalies and control failures have been reviewed and re-measured. |
| Sample and data and record preservation | Preserve original data and samples and logs and calibration records according to the institution's sample and data and instrument record management rules, keep versions retrievable and follow access authority, and manage them according to retention period and destruction and sharing restriction requirements. | Archiving can use systems, but responsibility for completeness and compliance still rests with the person themselves. | Judge whether the original data and samples and logs and calibration records are preserved according to procedure and are traceable. |
| Results and external statements | Handle reports and results and data provision and sample transfers according to institutional rules, truthfully state the results and limitations and uncertainty, and obtain approval according to the system when human-related samples and pathogenic microorganisms and commercial data are provided externally. | Writing and organization can assist, but compliance responsibility for the statement and provision still rests with the person themselves and authorized personnel. | Judge whether the results and external statements and the provision of samples and data exceed the boundary. |
| Biosecurity and animal ethics compliance boundaries | When the applicable approval, review, training or personal authority is not met, stop the affected activities and report according to institutional procedure; risk control does not replace the decisions of the specific competent authorities and institutions. | Institutional and regulatory materials can assist, but the compliance judgment and the decision to stop activities and report still rest with the person themselves and authorized personnel. This page does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation. | Check separately the pathogen level and the approval conditions for the specific activity, laboratory animal ethics/institutional authorization, human-subject ethics, personal information and human genetic resource rules; do not treat general biological operations uniformly as situations requiring specific approval. |
| Approval and training for specific situations | Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one. Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval. When the specific conditions are not met, stop the affected activities and report according to institutional procedure. |
The five cards check the definition, tasks, recruitment software, employment projection and industry respectively; task exposure, adoption effects and employment are different objects of measurement, and no GenAI causal conclusion is drawn from these five kinds of material.
The table below compares the differences among three groups of stages in terms of automation impact: what can be assisted, and what judgments and responsibilities still rest with people.
AI primarily changesData entry and organization, reading collection and curve processing, ledger and inventory management, and report and chart draft generation can be assisted.
Human responsibility remainsConfirm the experimental purpose and samples and safety level and bear responsibility for the results, execute according to standard operating procedures and judge anomalies and deviations and failures, handle biological and chemical and animal-related risks, and ensure that human-related samples and result reporting are carried out according to procedure.
AI primarily changesSample and data and instrument state and calibration records can be summarized and compared with the help of systems.
Human responsibility remainsJudge whether the data are usable by combining controls and replication with calibration status, and do not treat automatically collected or system-generated results as confirmed experimental conclusions.
AI primarily changesReading tables and charts and reports and log drafts can be automatically generated and archived.
Human responsibility remainsJudge whether the records are reviewable and reproducible, and stop and report when sample contamination or equipment failure or anomalous data or something beyond your authorization is found.
The following five steps are editorial suggestions; the sample, original record, approval and reporting procedures are checked against this institution and the applicable regulations, and they are not a mandatory operating process published by O*NET.
First confirm the experimental purpose and samples and biosecurity level and the institution's authorization boundary, the available instruments and supplies and systems and authority, and the reproduction and retention requirements for samples and data and logs, and clarify the handling and sharing restrictions for human-related samples and pathogenic microorganisms and hazardous chemicals.
Editorial suggestion: test literature, ledger or report drafting with fictional/isolated data, and only deliver after checking numbers, units, citations, versions and anomalies. Leaked human-derived data, destroyed samples or erroneous external reports cannot be promised to be rollback-able. Instrument structured automation and GenAI are validated separately, and actual sample operations and reporting authority are borne by the institution.
The person themselves reviews automatically collected and generated results against the original readings and controls and replication and calibration status, records deviations and anomalies, and does not treat system output as confirmed experimental conclusions.
Truthfully preserve sample sources and handling and preservation, instruments and reagents and lots, standard operating procedures and versions, and observations and anomalies and controls and deviations, so that experiments are reproducible and traceable, and retain and keep them as required by the institution.
Decisions involving the operating level for pathogenic microorganisms and animal disposal and the use and sharing and destruction of human-related samples, ethical and confidential matters, and the external reporting of results and data openness are borne by authorized personnel and the biosecurity and quality and ethics management departments in accordance with the applicable jurisdiction and institutional systems, and work stops and is reported when sample contamination or equipment failure or anomalous data or something beyond the person's authorization is found.
Treating automatically collected or system-generated results as confirmed experimental conclusions leads to incorrect data judgments and non-reproducible experiments and misleading external conclusions and biosecurity risks.
Control: Mark system output as reference and adopt it only after reviewing it against the original readings and controls and calibration status.
Biological samples and human-related samples and clinical and commercial data may involve privacy and compliance and trade secrets, and sending them out or handling them improperly creates compliance and trust risks.
Control: Handle human-related samples and biological data and commercial data in accordance with the applicable jurisdiction and institutional requirements, follow the authorized scope and the principles of minimum necessity and purpose limitation, and do not provide or disseminate them to unauthorized channels.
Experimental records and sample and instrument state and calibration records need to be traceable, and records without a time and personnel and instrument and reagent and version explanation will be hard to review.
Control: Keep the original data and samples and logs and calibration and anomaly records, noting the time, personnel, instrument and reagent lots and standard operating procedure versions and manual modification traces.
Selectively keeping data, modifying original readings or logs after the fact without leaving a trail, or continuing to operate beyond the biosecurity and ethics and sample authorization scope may violate laboratory quality and biosecurity and research integrity provisions.
Control: Check item by item against laboratory quality and biosecurity and chemical and animal welfare rules and jurisdictional requirements, stop and review immediately when an inconsistency is found, and record the corrections and what was reported.
Experimental data and samples and results must be attributable and traceable.
Control: Write the anomalies and disposition and follow-up arrangements into the records, and report immediately according to procedure when sample contamination or equipment failure or biosecurity problems or something beyond your authorization is involved.
First practice the experimental closed loop on fixed fictional materials: given a set of fictional experimental purpose and sample requirement descriptions, a fictional instrument and reagent and supply list, and a set of fictional observation and reading and anomaly records, write out in order the preparation and setup steps, the monitoring and recording methods, the review process for anomalies and deviations, and how to write up reproducibility and handover, and only then discuss the position; at the same time verify the target institution's laboratory quality and biosecurity and chemical and animal welfare training and authorization arrangements.
Use data entry and table organization, automatic instrument reading collection and curve fitting, reagent and sample ledger and inventory management, and report and chart draft generation to improve efficiency, but the confirmation of the experimental purpose and samples and safety level, the execution of standard operating procedures and methods, the judgment of anomalies and deviations and failures, and disposition decisions involving pathogenic microorganisms and hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and human-related samples are still borne by the person themselves and by authorized personnel in accordance with institutional procedures and the applicable jurisdiction, and automatically collected and generated results must be manually checked and recomputed before entering formal records.
When introducing automated instruments or data systems or assistive tools, specify the stages where they may be used, the security and authority standards for samples and data, and the responsible persons for review and authorization when biosecurity level operations and animal disposal and result reporting are involved, and retain the final judgment and disposition decisions of the responsible personnel.
Focus teaching on standard operating procedures and aseptic and contamination prevention techniques, instrument setup and calibration and fault identification, observation and recording and control and deviation judgments, and the scope of application of biosecurity and chemicals and animal welfare and human-related samples, while also training critical use of automatically collected and generated results, so that system output is not used to replace manual checking and review.
The materials read in this round do not give an overall substitution conclusion; the assistive ledger/report drafting is an editorial scenario, and it cannot be inferred from the existing task table that substitution will never happen or that positions will necessarily decrease.
Source: O*NET occupation summary / detailed informationOriginal source ↗
Entry requires aseptic and contamination prevention operations and instrument use and recording ability, and the ability to implement biosecurity and chemical and animal welfare standards in experiments; whether specific software or platforms are required depends on the institution and position, and specific requirements are subject to employer rules.
Source: O*NET technology list; training needs are checked against actual experimental tasksOriginal source ↗
Editorial suggestion: test literature, ledger or report drafting with fictional/isolated data, and only deliver after checking numbers, units, citations, versions and anomalies. Leaked human-derived data, destroyed samples or erroneous external reports cannot be promised to be rollback-able. Instrument structured automation and GenAI are validated separately, and actual sample operations and reporting authority are borne by the institution.
Source: O*NET detailed informationOriginal source ↗
U.S. 19-4021.00 this occupation: 74,400 employed in 2025, projected 79,900 in 2035; 7% growth from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with 9,400 average annual openings (including growth and replacement). The figures are already rounded, and simple subtraction cannot be used to recompute a precise growth rate; these are not a Chinese trend, an individual hiring rate or a GenAI causal projection.
Source: O*NET occupation summary (employment and projection fields)Original source ↗
No. Confirming the experimental purpose and safety level, executing standard operating procedures and handling samples, judging anomalies and deviations, and disposition decisions involving biosecurity and animal welfare and human-related samples must be borne by the person themselves and by authorized personnel in accordance with institutional procedures and the applicable jurisdiction; systems can be used for entry and collection and organization but cannot replace experimental judgment and safety responsibility.
Source: O*NET occupation summary / detailed informationOriginal source ↗
The sources read in this round do not provide a disappearance date or a GenAI causal employment projection for this occupation, and a limited search is not written as all official materials not existing.
Source: An editorial judgment on this page; for occupational background see the O*NET summary; not an official disappearance year forecastOriginal source ↗
Prioritize standard operating procedures and aseptic and contamination prevention techniques, instrument setup and calibration and fault identification, observation and recording and control and deviation judgments, and the scope of application of biosecurity and chemicals and animal welfare; tool capability builds on experimental and safety foundations rather than replacing them. Specific requirements are subject to employer rules.
Source: O*NET training and education informationOriginal source ↗
The content above distinguishes automation capability, actual deployment and employment outcomes; continue to the next section to see the evidence boundaries and gap explanations for the mainland China occupational wage scope.
Insufficient evidence: no official or verifiable source supports a city-level monthly wage range for this occupation.
Choose like-for-like annual average references according to the actual science and technology or education unit; no occupational-level monthly wage for biological technicians is provided.
| Education background | Common position directions | Explanation and checking suggestions |
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| Chinese position education and laboratory mentoring requirements: check against real recruitment conditions | Sample handling and experimental operation and data recording positions at research institutes and universities and corporate R&D centers and testing and inspection organizations and biological products and pharmaceutical enterprises. | Education and authorization are different paths; completing education and training does not equal authorization for pathogenic microorganism operations or animal disposal or result reporting. The O*NET education field for this occupation lists, according to position differences, a bachelor's degree and a high school diploma or equivalent and some college education without a degree (the page gives no percentages). |
| Accumulation of aseptic and contamination prevention operations and instrument use and recording capabilities | Specialized directions such as molecular and cellular experiments and microbiology and biochemical testing and environmental and agricultural testing and laboratory animal husbandry and biological products production. | Institution types and job duties differ (research institutes, universities, corporate R&D centers, testing organizations, biological products enterprises), and the job title and duties and biosecurity level and authorized scope must be confirmed in the employment terms. |
| Biosecurity and chemicals and animal welfare and human-related samples | Positions involving the operating level for pathogenic microorganisms and the handling of hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and human-derived samples. | The O*NET2026 new-hire education field lists bachelor's, high school or equivalent, and some college education without a degree, none with percentages, and this is not the education composition of current practitioners. Job Zone Four/SVP7 to under 8 describes the preparation level and cannot be used to infer a fixed number of training years for an individual. The 4,195 training directory items are based on the IPEDS2025—26 directory and 2024—25 degree-award records, not real-time enrollment or occupation-specific courses. The CareerOneStop related directory has 18 items, including BCSI specialized skills, AFS fisheries, NREP environment and AALAS laboratory animal technologist certification; a directory hit is not a general hiring threshold for this occupation or a Chinese national qualification. The detailed page lists 4 example titles that are industry-reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for use in registered apprenticeship programs: upstream and downstream biomanufacturing technician, Dairy Technologist, microbiological quality control technician; these are not 4 currently open employer programs, and quotas, pay and enrollment conditions were not verified. Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one. |
| Samples and data and records and research integrity compliance | Positions involving the handling of biological samples and human-derived samples and commercial data, the safekeeping of samples and data and logs and calibration records and access authority, and the presentation of results and reports. | Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval. The context proportions are U.S. answers, not Chinese disease/injury incidence rates. |
NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions.
Technology industry non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; check applicability against the actual legal entity's industry, and this is not this occupation's wages or China's demand share.
Education non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year; it covers multiple schooling stages and positions and does not represent the wages of higher education laboratory staff. The U.S. industries are separately 2025 education 23%, government 14%, health care 12%, manufacturing 10%, which cannot be applied to China.
Above-scale technology enterprises: professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year; the management comparison does not serve as the wage of an ordinary laboratory technician, and public institutions are not covered by enterprise tables.
AI and automation may change assistive stages such as data entry and reading collection and ledgers, but they do not change the statistical scope for this occupation in mainland China: the statistical scope, covered population and data period must be read together with the wage figures.
| The median is an annual wage of 57,510 USD (19-4021.00 scope for this occupation); it describes the midpoint of this occupation's distribution, not an individual's take-home pay. |
| Highest 10% | 84,940 USD/year (90th percentile) | Official annual wage, not an individual's take-home pay | The 2025 90th percentile of 84,940 USD/year is the upper end of the distribution; this round did not obtain a causal relationship between it and years of experience, instrument skills or shifts, and it cannot serve as a general quote. |
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Wages · 10th percentile：40,330 USD/year (10th percentile)；The 10th percentile is an annual wage of 40,330 USD (hourly 19.39 USD)； the O*NET local wages page gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation； this set of values is in the scope for this occupation； this is the low end of the distribution, does not represent all newcomers, and does not constitute a starting salary promise.；O*NET 19-4021.00 local wages page (this occupation's scope)
Wages · 25th percentile：48,130 USD/year (25th percentile)；The 25th percentile is an annual wage of 48,130 USD (hourly 23.14 USD)； the official page values corresponding to this position are in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation.；O*NET 19-4021.00 local wages page (this occupation's scope)
Wages · median：57,510 USD/year (median)；The median is an annual wage of 57,510 USD (hourly 27.65 USD)； the O*NET local wages page gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in this occupation's scope； it cannot be treated as this occupation's entry-level wage or as an income promise.；O*NET 19-4021.00 local wages page (this occupation's scope)
Wages · 75th percentile：71,520 USD/year (75th percentile)；The 75th percentile is an annual wage of 71,520 USD (hourly 34.39 USD)； the official page values corresponding to this position are in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation.；O*NET 19-4021.00 local wages page (this occupation's scope)
Wages · 90th percentile：84,940 USD/year (90th percentile)；2025 90th percentile 84,940 USD/year and 40.84 USD/hour； employee wage statistics that exclude self-employment and independent contracting fees. Contractor firm employees' wages may be counted at the actual employer, and outsourced personnel cannot be uniformly excluded.
The median is not an entry-level wage: it means that half of practitioners earn above and half below that value; the median of 57,510 USD given on this page is in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation, so it is not treated as this occupation's entry level.
The hourly wage of 27.65 USD and the annual wage of 57,510 USD for this occupation on this page should be read together; wage percentiles describe a statistical distribution, and an hourly wage multiplied by hours cannot be used to derive an individual's annual income. Editorial checking suggestions: confirm the actual paid hours, shifts and overtime compensation, project arrangements and taxes; this round did not obtain research showing that shifts/project-based work significantly change take-home income in this occupation.
The values cited on this page come from the 2025 BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), sourced from the O*NET local wages page (which gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation); employment and projection come from the O*NET employment trends page (this occupation's scope).
Editorial contract checking suggestions: check the specialized tasks, job level, shifts, project cycles and performance pay clauses; this round has no estimate of how these factors relate to wages or of a premium in this occupation, and individual income cannot be inferred from national percentiles or industry averages.
| Industry | 2023 occupational industry annual average wage | How to understand this value |
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| Scientific research and development services | 60,990 USD/year (2023 industry annual average) | 2023 BLS annual average for this occupation within the industry, not the 2025 median. |
| Colleges, universities and professional schools | 52,000 USD/year (2023 industry annual average) | 2023 BLS annual average for this occupation within the industry; not the wages of the education industry as a whole. |
| Federal, state and local government (excluding specified agencies) | 48,720 USD/year (2023 industry annual average) | 2023 BLS annual average; excludes state and local government schools, hospitals and USPS. |
| Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing | 69,070 USD/year (2023 industry annual average) | 2023 BLS annual average for this occupation within the industry; not all manufacturing or project-based income. |
The 2023 BLS industry annual average wages for this occupation can serve as a historical comparison: scientific research and development 60,990, colleges and professional schools 52,000, government 48,720, pharmaceutical manufacturing 69,070 USD; not the 2025 median or a personal quote.
This page has the 2025 wage percentiles for this occupation, but no income distribution broken down by years of experience, shift supervisor role or specific instrument skill; independent operation and method ability can support duty checks but do not guarantee higher pay.
Editorial pay checking suggestions: check shifts, overtime compensation and project contracts. The O*NET context answers are 35% working more than 40 hours per week, 63% 40 hours per week, 23% strict daily deadlines, 67% fixed regular and 12% irregular work arrangements, which are work context proportions; this round has no data on how these factors relate to individual income, and no pay effect is inferred from overtime proportions.
This is the number of people employed given by the O*NET employment trends page in this occupation's scope； this scope is the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation, and recruitment demand at an individual institution or in a region may differ greatly from the national scope.；O*NET 19-4021.00 occupation summary (employment and projection fields)
U.S. 19-4021.00 this occupation: 74,400 employed in 2025, projected 79,900 in 2035； 7% growth from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with 9,400 average annual openings (including growth and replacement). The figures are already rounded, and simple subtraction cannot be used to recompute a precise growth rate； these are not a Chinese trend, an individual hiring rate or a GenAI causal projection.
This is the job openings scope over the projection period shown on the O*NET employment trends page (this occupation's scope), including growth and replacement； it is not the number of net new positions and does not constitute an individual hiring guarantee.；O*NET 19-4021.00 occupation summary (employment and projection fields)
Which Holland interest type is closer to biological technicians?
The Holland interest code is CRI (Conventional-Realistic-Investigative): Conventional corresponds to following procedures and regulations to organize information or data; Realistic corresponds to designing or building or repairing equipment and materials or structures or doing physical activities and outdoor work; Investigative corresponds to researching and exploring non-living objects and living organisms or disease or human behavior. The interest type scores given on that page are Conventional 77, Realistic 77, Investigative 73, Social 16, Enterprising 5, Artistic 3.
Do not use it this way: Note: an interest test result matching the occupational interest code only means the direction is close; it does not mean you already have aseptic operation and instrument use and anomaly judgment ability, nor does it mean you can obtain authorization for pathogenic microorganism operations or animal disposal or result reporting.
Test my Holland career interestsWhich Big Five traits are more relevant to this job?
Diligence, stability and exploring new methods serve only as editorial behavior questions: whether one can keep records according to procedure, review first when anomalies occur, and accept method updates. This round did not obtain direct research on the Big Five and performance in this occupation, and the O*NET style scores are not interpreted as personality test validity.
Do not use it this way: Note: treating personality scores as ability or hiring conclusions is a common misuse; this page does not provide score thresholds or type lists.
See my Big Five personality traitsCan MBTI be used to judge whether I am suited to being a biological technician?
This round did not verify the matching, performance or selection validity of MBTI in this occupation; preference organization is used only as an editorial discussion question, and no hiring is done by type.
Do not use it this way: Note: this page does not list any best-fit type and does not endorse its use for selection or screening.
Understand my MBTI preferencesCan the Enneagram tell me whether I am suited to this occupation?
This round did not obtain direct evidence on the Enneagram and performance or hiring prediction in this occupation; reflection questions do not become a type threshold.
Do not use it this way: Note: this page does not provide a correspondence between types and positions.
Explore my Enneagram patternsCan I be a biological technician if I am not good at mathematics?
This occupation is mainly about operation and recording and communication: work activities are listed as 41 items on the detailed page with importance scores, the highest being communicating with supervisors or peers or subordinates 85, documenting or recording information 82, organizing and planning and prioritizing work 82, getting information 76, identifying objects and actions and events 76, monitoring processes and materials or surroundings 76, using computers 72, making decisions and solving problems 71, processing information 70, and training and teaching others 70.
Does being a biological technician require high emotional intelligence?
Editorial behavior self-check: observe whether one can check patiently and record objectively under experiments, anomalous results and project pressure, and report and communicate clearly according to laboratory procedures when sample or safety problems are found. This round did not obtain direct research on EI tests predicting competence or performance in this occupation; these behavior suggestions do not prove an EQ score effect and do not replace experimental skills, safety and data standards.
Fits better when: Willing to define research questions and methods and make statistical inferences.
Watch for: Need to add training in research methods and statistical inference; experience operating and recording according to procedure does not equal the ability to independently design analyses and make statistical inferences.
Explore related career: Bioinformatics scientistsFits better when: Willing to do the retrieval of biological data and scripts and database maintenance.
Watch for: Need to add training in scripts and databases and data formats; wet-lab experience does not equal data retrieval and script and database maintenance ability.
Explore related career: Bioinformatics techniciansFits better when: Willing to do clinical specimen testing and result reporting.
Watch for: Need to add training in clinical testing and reporting and quality management; research and testing laboratory experience does not equal clinical specimen testing and reporting ability.
Explore related career: Medical and clinical laboratory techniciansFits better when: Willing to do chemicals and chemical analysis and synthesis.
Watch for: Need to add training in chemical analysis and synthesis and chemical safety; biological laboratory experience does not equal chemicals and chemical analysis ability.
Explore related career: Chemical techniciansFits better when: Willing to do measuring equipment calibration and uncertainty and traceability.
Watch for: Need to add training in metrology and uncertainty and traceability; instrument operation experience does not equal measuring equipment calibration and uncertainty evaluation ability.
Explore related career: Calibration techniciansFits better when: Willing to do research organization and personnel and budget and compliance management.
Watch for: Need to add training in research management and budgeting and compliance; experimental operation experience does not equal research organization and personnel and resource management ability.
Explore related career: Natural sciences managersRather than a personality type, it is a way of working: being able to operate instruments and handle samples according to standard operating procedures and record truthfully, handle biological and chemical and animal-related risks according to procedure, hand over results according to authorization and accept review and correction, and stay stable and objective through equipment failures and result deviations.
Whether it suits you does not depend on introversion or extroversion. This occupation requires both completing experimental operations and recording independently and communicating with researchers and laboratory colleagues; being able to maintain precision and safety awareness under time pressure and repetitive tasks matters more than personality type.
Yes. Traveling back and forth among the bench and equipment and records over long periods requires focus and tolerance, and cooperating with researchers and handing over anomalies also requires communicating with different kinds of people; introversion or extroversion is not a condition in the official scope.
This round did not obtain direct evidence on the relationship between MBTI and prediction in this occupation, so no best-fit type is set; supervised operation and record review are used to evaluate specific skills.
O*NET lists this occupation's interest code as CRI (Conventional-Realistic-Investigative), with scores of Conventional 77, Realistic 77, Investigative 73: a preference for organizing information and data according to procedures and regulations, hands-on operation of equipment and materials, and researching and exploring living organisms and disease. Matching interest only means the direction is close and does not mean having aseptic operation ability or position authorization.
This round did not verify the predictive validity of these scales for this occupation; personality or interest scores are not used to replace actual skill evaluation.
Not required, but mathematics and unit conversion and concentration and statistics foundations affect the accuracy of solution preparation and readings and result computation and anomaly judgments. This occupation requires being able to handle dilutions and concentrations and units and data deviations; lacking these foundations entirely would clearly limit the range of work one can take on.
Editorial behavior self-check: observe whether one can check patiently and record objectively under experiments, anomalous results and project pressure, and report and communicate clearly according to laboratory procedures when sample or safety problems are found. This round did not obtain direct research on EI tests predicting competence or performance in this occupation; these behavior suggestions do not prove an EQ score effect and do not replace experimental skills, safety and data standards.
This round did not obtain evidence on the Enneagram and performance or hiring prediction in this occupation, and no type threshold is set.
Judge by reviewable output: an experimental record containing fictional experimental purpose and samples and safety requirements, an instrument and reagent and supply list, observation and reading and anomaly records, and review and re-measurement and handover and log explanations.
Typical scenario：Bypassing the applicable level, admission, training and specific activity approval, or continuing to operate after leakage or contamination is found; not all general experiments require provincial approval.
Roles most affected：Samples and experimental subjects and the institution, as well as the person themselves and colleagues
Possible consequence：Starting pathogenic microorganism operations without reaching the corresponding biosecurity level or without completing training and protective preparation, or conducting experiments beyond the approved scope, may cause laboratory infection and environmental contamination and sample disposal losses and brings legal and management responsibility risks.
How to reduce risk：Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. Before operating, check the institutional level, personnel admission, specific project conditions, training and protection and waste arrangements; when anomalies are found, stop the affected stages and report according to procedure.
Evidence：O*NET 19-4021.00 detailed information (work context) · Full text of the Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024 from the Ministry of Commerce regulations database · Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals (effective from May 1, 2026)
Typical scenario：Taking human-related samples out of the authorized area, discussing identifiable individuals' samples and data in public, or transferring samples without labels and two-person verification.
Roles most affected：The person themselves and the institution and the experimental subjects and sample providers
Possible consequence：Leakage or mismatching of human-related samples or label-linked personal data may harm rights and result credibility; biological material hazards, personal information and human genetic resource legal objects must be checked separately.
How to reduce risk：Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval. Operational controls such as two-person verification are determined by institutional rules and activity risk, and are not passed off as uniformly mandatory clauses in all PIPL scenarios.
Evidence：O*NET 19-4021.00 detailed information (work context) · Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China · Official public text of the 2024 revision of the human genetic resources regulations · Current National Health Commission human genetic resources service system application guidelines
Typical scenario：Keeping no original data or logs, or supplementing records after the fact without leaving a trail, or selectively deleting or modifying recorded readings and anomaly and failure records.
Roles most affected：The person themselves and researchers and reviewers
Possible consequence：Non-reproducible samples and instruments and reagents and lots and data records cause results to be untestable and responsibility and basis to be unclear, and make it impossible to demonstrate compliance in internal review and external peer review or regulatory inspection.
How to reduce risk：Preserve original data and samples and logs and calibration records according to institutional quality and research integrity rules, truthfully record instruments and reagent lots and standard operating procedure versions and manual modification traces, keep samples and versions retrievable and use a reproducible process, and manage according to retention period and destruction requirements.
Evidence：O*NET 19-4021.00 occupation summary · O*NET 19-4021.00 detailed information (work context)
Typical scenario：Adopting unchecked automatic results directly to save time, or skipping control and calibration checks and delivering data directly.
Roles most affected：The person themselves and reviewers
Possible consequence：Treating automated collection or system-generated or curve-fitted results as confirmed experimental conclusions leads to incorrect data judgments and non-reproducible experiments and misleading external conclusions and biosecurity risks.
How to reduce risk：Mark system output as reference and adopt it only after reviewing it against the original readings and controls and replication and calibration status; check automatically generated reports and charts item by item; record the instrument model and software version and parameters and reasons for manual changes.
Evidence：O*NET 19-4021.00 occupation summary · O*NET 19-4021.00 detailed information (work context)
Typical scenario：Working consecutive overtime hours during testing peaks, omitting ventilation and protective equipment or wearing it beyond the time limit, or letting skin and respiratory discomfort and fatigue accumulate to the point of affecting operation and recording quality.
Roles most affected：The person themselves
Possible consequence：Standing, repetitive operations, protective equipment and contaminants are O*NET work context items; this round did not obtain direct research on Chinese lower limb/neck and shoulder and back, skin or respiratory disease rates for this occupation or on disease caused by shift work. Assess protection and ergonomics according to actual exposure and operations.
How to reduce risk：Implement protection/ventilation/emergency response according to the actual equipment, sample and chemical safety requirements; general ergonomic materials can be referenced for screen static postures, repetitive operations and glare. Bench mats and job rotation are editorial checking suggestions, not claims that the source has proven an injury prevention rate for this occupation.
Evidence：O*NET 19-4021.00 detailed information (work context) · Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals (effective from May 1, 2026) · Full text of the Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024 from the Ministry of Commerce regulations database · OSHA guidance on work organization at computer workstations · OSHA guidance on the computer workstation environment
Typical scenario：When authority, level or the specific applicable conditions are not met, do not carry out the affected operations/material transfers; check the provision conditions for personal information and human genetic resource materials and information separately, and do not describe all data as requiring specific approval.
Roles most affected：The person themselves and the institution and the sample and data recipients
Possible consequence：For external sample materials and data/reports, check institutional authority, personal information and human genetic resource rules separately; exploratory results are not stated as definite conclusions. The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one.
How to reduce risk：Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval. Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. The Job Zone is a U.S. preparation level description and cannot serve as a legal basis for Chinese approval or filing.
Evidence：Full text of the Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024 from the Ministry of Commerce regulations database · Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals (effective from May 1, 2026) · Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China · Official public text of the 2024 revision of the human genetic resources regulations · Current National Health Commission human genetic resources service system application guidelines
| Position direction | Starting tasks | Employer basis | Evidence that can be submitted with zero experience | Boundaries that need to be distinguished |
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| Research laboratory support position | Complete sample handling and instrument operation and data recording according to standard operating procedures, and participate in method reproduction and anomaly review. | Usually looks at aseptic and contamination prevention operations and instrument use and record quality, the standardization of working according to biosecurity and laboratory quality procedures, and the attitude toward communicating with researchers and accepting review; the biosecurity level and equipment and sample authorization are decided by the institution and the project arrangement. | Submit a record containing fictional experimental purpose and samples and an instrument list and readings and an anomaly review, without using real biological samples or human-related samples. |
Typical scope：Bears responsibility for the accuracy of sample handling and data and records.
Readiness evidence：Supervised operation and data and record materials.
Credential boundary：Basic training in aseptic operations and pipetting and centrifugation and culture.
Next moves：Complete sample handling and instrument operation and data recording under supervision and keep reproducible materials according to procedure.
Typical scope：Responsible for method execution and data quality and equipment state.
Readiness evidence：Independent experimental records and instrument state and review records.
Credential boundary：Complete training in instruments and analytical methods and quality control.
Next moves：Independently take on common experiments and equipment maintenance and data review and submit reviewable records.
Typical scope：Responsible for procedure execution, review responsibility and project coordination.
Able to complete, under supervision, one full closed loop of confirming the task and constraints, checking samples and supplies and equipment, setting up and operating according to standard operating procedures, observing and collecting and recording, reviewing anomalies and controls, and organizing and handing over and archiving, and to stop the affected stages and report when samples are contaminated or equipment fails or data are anomalous or something is beyond one's authorization.
Able to independently complete sample handling and instrument operation and data recording for common experiments, keep reproducible records according to institutional procedures, and handle general anomalies and equipment failures within the scope of authorization.
Able to mentor newcomers, participate in developing the institution's standard operating procedures and biosecurity and quality procedures, and take on coordination and review responsibilities in method transfer and quality audit and inspection milestones.
Move toward the molecular and cellular experiments direction or the microbiology and biochemical testing direction or the environment and agriculture testing direction, the laboratory animals and biological products production direction, or move to adjacent positions such as bioinformatics technicians and medical and clinical laboratory technicians and chemical technicians and calibration technicians and agricultural technicians and cytogenetic technologists (which require corresponding training and qualifications and position authorization).
United States · exact
7% (2025 to 2035 much faster than average; 9,400 average annual openings)
Growth rate and job openings (this occupation's scope)
U.S. 19-4021.00 this occupation: 74,400 employed in 2025, projected 79,900 in 2035; 7% growth from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with 9,400 average annual openings (including growth and replacement). The figures are already rounded, and simple subtraction cannot be used to recompute a precise growth rate; these are not a Chinese trend, an individual hiring rate or a GenAI causal projection. Research funding and project cycles are only editorial inquiry directions and do not represent a quantified effect.
Does not establish：The 7% growth is the official projection for this occupation and cannot be recomputed from the rounded figures or interpreted as an individual hiring guarantee or a GenAI causal effect.
Mainland China · industry_proxy; precise occupational wages were not obtained
NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions.
China matched industry references and the precise occupational gap
NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions.
Does not establish：Industry and broad personnel category references are not passed off as this occupation's median, starting salary, city range or demand share.
These are capability relationships, not automatic promotions or credential waivers.
Transfers：What is transferable is the foundation in sample records and data organization and laboratory standards.
Build next：Need to add training in data retrieval and scripts and databases; wet-lab experience does not equal data and script and database maintenance ability.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in sample handling and testing and recording.
Build next：Need to add training in clinical testing and reporting and quality management; research and testing laboratory experience does not equal clinical specimen testing and reporting ability.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in solution preparation and weighing and safe operations.
Build next：Need to add training in chemical analysis and synthesis and chemical safety; biological laboratory experience does not equal chemicals and chemical analysis ability.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in instrument operation and maintenance and recording.
Build next：Need to add training in metrology and uncertainty and traceability; instrument operation experience does not equal measuring equipment calibration and uncertainty evaluation ability.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in sampling and recording and safety.
Build next：Need to add training in field and livestock production and sampling; laboratory experience does not equal agricultural field and production support ability.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in aseptic operations and microscopy and sample handling.
Build next：Need to add training in chromosome specimen preparation and karyotype analysis; general biological laboratory experience does not equal cytogenetic specimen preparation and analysis ability.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in experimental operations and data recording.
Build next：Need to add training in cellular and molecular experimental design and mechanism research; experience operating according to procedure does not equal the ability to independently carry out mechanism research.
View career profileTransfers：What is transferable is the foundation in aseptic operations and culture and recording.
Build next：Need to add training in microbiology and culture and identification and biosecurity; general laboratory experience does not equal the culture and identification and biosecurity handling ability of microbiology research.
View career profileKey risks include crossing biosecurity and pathogenic microorganism operation boundaries, compliance risks for human-related samples and biological data, non-reproducible samples and data and records, automated collection and system output being treated as conclusions, hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and occupational exposure load, and the external reporting and transfer of samples and results beyond authorization; the control approach is to work first within the authorized biosecurity and laboratory quality and ethics scope and carry out risk identification, handle pathogenic microorganisms and chemicals and animals and human-related samples according to procedure and retain records, truthfully record samples and instruments and reagents and lots and data and anomalies, hand over results and provide samples within the authorized scope, and stop and escalate when beyond authorization or when anomalies are found.
Look at reviewable output: whether you can prepare and operate and monitor according to standard operating procedures, whether you can truthfully record samples and instruments and data and keep them reproducible, and whether you can stop and review and report when equipment fails or results are anomalous or samples are contaminated or something is beyond your authorization. An interest code of CRI and skill and knowledge scores only indicate that the direction is close and cannot replace this practical evidence.
AI and automation can change data entry and organization, reading collection and curve processing, ledger and inventory management and draft writing; but confirming the experimental purpose and safety level, executing standard operating procedures and handling samples, judging anomalies and deviations and failures, and disposition decisions on biosecurity and animal welfare and result reporting are still borne by people. The degree of equipment automation does not equal a change in the number of positions; the officially published employment and projection are in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation.
Confirming the experimental purpose and safety level, executing standard operating procedures and handling samples, judging anomalies and deviations and failures, and disposition decisions involving pathogenic microorganisms and hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and human-related samples must be borne by the person themselves and authorized personnel in accordance with the applicable jurisdiction and institutional rules; automatically collected and system-generated results can only serve as rollback-able and reviewable assistive stages.
Check in six categories: education (the O*NET education field lists, according to position differences, a bachelor's degree and a high school diploma or equivalent and some college education without a degree); vocational training and continuing education (the training page shows 4,195 training programs registered nationwide); industry certification (the certification page shows 18 national certifications); registered apprenticeship positions (4 items); institutional laboratory quality and biosecurity and chemical and animal welfare training and biosecurity level and equipment and sample and animal and chemical authorization; and the requirements of the applicable jurisdiction for biosecurity and laboratory safety and laboratory animal welfare. This occupation is Job Zone Four (considerable preparation needed). None of them can be automatically inferred from another.
The work context shows that 61% consider precision or accuracy extremely important (26% very important), 94% are in contact with others continuously, 88% use email every day, 85% wear common protective or safety equipment every day, 61% use their hands to handle tools and objects continuously or almost continuously, 49% consider repeating the same task extremely important, 23% face time pressure every day (36% more than once a week), 33% consider the consequences of error extremely serious (14% very serious, 22% serious), 13% are exposed to hazardous conditions every day (31% more than once a week), 33% are exposed to contaminants every day, 20% are exposed to minor burns or cuts or bites or stings every day, 22% are exposed to distracting or uncomfortable noise every day, and 20% stand continuously or almost continuously (48% more than half the time); long periods of standing and repetitive operations and wearing protective equipment require ergonomic arrangements and breaks, and project and testing peaks bring a periodic increase in intensity, so persistent discomfort should be reported early.
The work context shows that 81% have only some freedom in making decisions (11% very little), 23% have a lot of freedom in determining tasks and priorities (54% some, 23% very little), 27% need to make decisions every day (24% more than once a week, 23% never); 23% face time pressure every day (36% more than once a week, 35% more than once a month); 48% consider competition moderate (22% slight); 16% consider their decisions to be very important to the results of colleagues or the institution (55% important, 16% slight); 23% consider they have very high responsibility for the health and safety of others (37% moderate); 35% consider coordinating or leading others extremely important; 24% consider the degree of automation highly automated, 23% moderate, 35% slight and 18% not automated at all; 15% consider it extremely important that the work pace is determined by equipment speed (42% not important at all); 35% work more than 40 hours per week and 63% exactly 40 hours; 67% have fixed regular shifts and 12% variable shifts. When comparing positions, write the biosecurity level and equipment and animal and chemical authorization, shift and on-call and project cycles, and sample and data retention requirements into the written terms.
The O*NET employment trends page gives, in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation, 82,700 employed in 2024 and about 85,600 in 2034 (4%, average), with 9,100 job openings per year on average over the projection period; growth and openings are different indicators and openings include replacement demand. For transitions you can compare bioinformatics technicians, medical and clinical laboratory technicians, chemical technicians, calibration technicians, agricultural technicians, cytogenetic technologists, molecular and cellular biologists, and microbiologists, but all require adding the corresponding training and qualifications and authorization.
On the U.S. side the O*NET local wages page gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation; this page publishes the 2025 BLS values according to the page values with labels at every occurrence (median annual wage 57,510 USD, median hourly wage 27.65 USD). Mainland China has only industry and broad-scope statistics, and no occupational wage entry precisely corresponding to this occupation was obtained; according to the evidence standard of this page (no data can be safely used; the handling note is that only industry and broad-scope statistics are available and no occupational median is passed off), this page publishes no mainland China wage figures and retains a visible gap marker, without passing off industry averages as an occupational median. The occupational scope, statistical systems, data periods and employment and pay structures of the two sides all differ, so U.S. dollars cannot be converted into yuan, and quotes lacking a sample and a position scope should not be trusted.
The FermatMind editors compiled this according to the current full O*NET fields, 2025 wages and 2025 to 2035 trend, BLS2023 historical industry wages, China NBS2025 matched industries and broad personnel categories and the currently applicable regulations. The content clearly distinguishes precise occupational data, broad-scope references, editorial suggestions and evidence gaps.
U.S. wages 2025: median annual 57,510 and median hourly 27.65 USD, all percentiles checked; trend 2025 to 2035 growth 7%/9,400 per year on average; industry 2025. China NBS2025 pre-tax annual average references and BLS2023 industry annual averages are historical references; periods and indicators must not be mixed.
Sources in this round: the nine O*NET entry points and the three certification question sets, the official BCSI FAQ and Lab Bench description, the BLS2023 industry table, NBS2025 Chinese statistics, the Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024, the Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals effective in 2026, PIPL and the current human genetic resource rules. The original source register retains historical records, and currently supporting sources are added separately.
Limitations：A U.S. occupational classification, which does not directly prove a Chinese position series or qualifications; the identity and responsibilities and wage and employment and industry data on the page are all in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation.
Limitations：The task list describes group work and does not mean that every position carries out all tasks; the page lists 18 tasks and gives importance scores.
Limitations：Employment and projection are in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation and cannot be extrapolated to a broader occupational group.
Limitations：The page gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in this occupation's scope; this page publishes the annual and hourly wage percentiles according to that set of values with labels at every occurrence and does not treat the values as a personal quote or an income promise.
Limitations：This release publishes the average wages of urban unit employees by industry category and unit type and broad personnel category; this page uses it only to explain the statistical scope and coverage boundary, does not take any industry category value in place of this occupation's wages, and does not publish mainland China wage figures.
Limitations：This law requires biotechnology research and development and application activities to meet biosecurity requirements, requires pathogenic microorganism experimental activities to be carried out in laboratories of the corresponding level and within the approved scope, and sets rules for human genetic resources and biological resources and laboratory biosecurity management. The law does not constitute position authorization; this page only cites its scope of application and boundaries of conduct and does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation.
Limitations：These regulations require units using hazardous chemicals to have their conditions of use (including processes) meet the requirements of laws and administrative regulations and national and industry standards, and to establish sound safety management systems and operating procedures according to the type and hazardous characteristics of the hazardous chemicals and the amount and manner of use, and to provide employees with safety education and job technical training. This page only cites their scope of application and boundaries of conduct and does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation.
Limitations：The work context fields are respondent percentages and cannot be used to infer individual position conditions; the page lists 57 work context items, of which the precision requirement and exposure and protective equipment and decision freedom and repetitive task items are listed according to the page's graded responses.
Limitations：Employment and projection in this occupation's scope, not an individual's probability of being hired.
Limitations：The page lists 12 software skills (Microsoft Excel 8%, Microsoft Office software 7%, Microsoft .NET Framework 6%, Microsoft Word 4%, ESRI ArcGIS software 3%, Microsoft PowerPoint 2%, Microsoft Outlook 2%, Microsoft Access 1%; Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Project and SAS are marked Not available); the source is Lightcast job postings, and adoption rates in positions cannot be inferred when no proportion is given.
Limitations：The page shows 18 national certifications (including BCSI Aseptic Technique- Lab Bench and BCSI Quantitative Lab Skills I and BCSI Regulatory Auditor Communication and others, issued by bodies such as the Bioscience Core Skills Institute); certification does not equal biosecurity authorization or a practice license.
Limitations：Provides a global research scope for task exposure and job transformation; does not give an adoption rate or a substitution date for this occupation.
Limitations：Editorial group compilation and scope verification record, including the task impact scale and scope verification for this occupation.
Limitations：The page shows 4,195 training programs registered nationwide; the occupational preparation information states that this occupation is Job Zone Four and that most positions require a four-year bachelor's degree, but not all of them; the training information does not constitute laboratory and biosecurity authorization or an employer appointment.
Limitations：The page shows 4 registered apprenticeship positions; completing an apprenticeship does not equal the institution's biosecurity level and sample disposal and result reporting authorization.
Limitations：Used to check the original official responsibility text 'Assist biological and medical scientists. Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, make observations, and calculate and record results. May analyze organic substances, such as blood, food, and drugs.'.
Limitations：Used for the basic skills and transferable skills and knowledge scope; the basic skills on that page number 10 by label (reading comprehension 75, active listening 72, critical thinking 69, science 69, active learning 63, writing 63, monitoring 60, speaking 60, mathematics 50, learning strategies 47); transferable skills number 25 by label, with visible scores for complex problem solving 53 and judgment and decision making 53 and coordination 50 and operation monitoring 50 and quality control analysis 50 and time management 50; knowledge numbers 33 by label, with visible scores for biology 96 and English language 73 and computers and electronics 63 and chemistry 61 and mathematics 56 and clerical 43.
Limitations：The task list describes group work; the page lists 18 tasks and gives importance scores.
Limitations：The page gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in this occupation's scope; this page publishes the wage percentiles according to that set of values with labels at every occurrence.
Limitations：Professional scientific and technical services 38%, educational services 23%, government 15%, health care and social assistance 11%, and other industries including manufacturing 13%; industry distribution describes a statistical classification and does not provide industry wage levels.
Limitations：82,700 employed in 2024, about 85,600 in 2034, 4% for 2024 to 2034 (labeled average), and 9,100 job openings per year on average over the projection period; this is this occupation's scope.
Limitations：The official profile provides occupational identity and responsibility descriptions and sample job titles (Biological Science Lab Tech, Biological Science Tech, Biologist Aide, Biologist Technician and others); the related occupation list includes Agricultural Technicians, Bioinformatics Technicians, Calibration Technologists and Technicians, Chemical Technicians, Cytogenetic Technologists, Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians, Molecular and Cellular Biologists, Microbiologists, Biologists, Biochemists and Biophysicists, Geneticists, Bioinformatics Scientists, Chemists, Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers, Natural Sciences Managers, Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary and others; it does not set a personal competency threshold.
Limitations：Occupational classification divides occupations into intermediate and detailed categories; this page has not obtained a mainland China occupational wage entry precisely corresponding to 19-4021.00, and biological and testing laboratory technology positions are dispersed across the scientific research and technical services and manufacturing and health care and education series and the like, and must be identified according to the type of employer and the duties of the position. This material is an occupational classification reference and does not establish position authorization.
Limitations：The page gives 'Workers on average earn $57,510' in this occupation's scope; this page publishes the wage percentiles according to that set of values with labels at every occurrence and does not treat that scope as a personal income promise.
Limitations：The official profile only provides occupational identity and responsibility and domain and tool descriptions and can be used to search for this occupation by industry and interest and knowledge area; it does not set a personal competency threshold.
Limitations：Identity definition, which does not establish a Chinese occupational equivalent or independent operation qualification.
Limitations：All 18 tasks, 13 core and 5 supplemental, are scored, with 41 activities, 21 detailed activities and 57 context items. All of the 10/25/33/52 skill, knowledge and ability items are scored, and 0 is an actual rating. There are 20 style and 41 interest items, which are not an individual entry line.
Limitations：A field selection entry point and sample titles, which do not provide personality predictive validity.
Limitations：U.S. 19-4021.00 this occupation: 74,400 employed in 2025, projected 79,900 in 2035; 7% growth from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with 9,400 average annual openings (including growth and replacement). The figures are already rounded, and simple subtraction cannot be used to recompute a precise growth rate; these are not a Chinese trend, an individual hiring rate or a GenAI causal projection.
Limitations：2025 U.S. industry distribution for this occupation: professional scientific and technical services 39%, education 23%, government 14%, health care and social assistance 12%, manufacturing 10%, other 2%. The industry distribution is not industry wages and does not establish a Chinese industry or position mapping.
Limitations：The 12 software signals come from full-year 2025 U.S. Lightcast unique job postings: Excel8%, Office7%, .NET6%, Word4%, ArcGIS3%, PowerPoint/Outlook 2% each, Access1%; Acrobat/Photoshop/Project/SAS are Not available. The denominator is all unique postings for this occupation, and missing proportions are not filled in as 0; these are not adoption rates in positions, GenAI usage rates or equipment operation qualification rates. The detailed page separately lists 12 software categories.
Limitations：The O*NET2026 new-hire education field lists bachelor's, high school or equivalent, and some college education without a degree, none with percentages, and this is not the education composition of current practitioners. Job Zone Four/SVP7 to under 8 describes the preparation level and cannot be used to infer a fixed number of training years for an individual. The 4,195 training directory items are based on the IPEDS2025—26 directory and 2024—25 degree-award records, not real-time enrollment or occupation-specific courses.
Limitations：The CareerOneStop related directory has 18 items, including BCSI specialized skills, AFS fisheries, NREP environment and AALAS laboratory animal technologist certification; a directory hit is not a general hiring threshold for this occupation or a Chinese national qualification.
Limitations：NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions.
Limitations：Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately.
Limitations：The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one.
Limitations：Personal information processing in China is checked against the Personal Information Protection Law for a lawful basis, necessity and security measures; identifiable personal medical health and the like are sensitive personal information with requirements for a specific purpose, sufficient necessity and strict protection. Not all scientific research data or non-human samples are sensitive personal information; human genetic resource rules and personal information rules should be judged separately, and foreign requirements cannot be replaced by Chinese provisions.
Limitations：Articles 2 through 4, 7 through 14 and 21 through 28 have been read; the procedure is judged by activity. The 2019 original competent department no longer represents current responsibilities.
Limitations：The implementing entities, the absence of fees and the definition/collection activity scope FAQ have been read; it includes nucleic acid sequences and associated disease information and does not include purely clinical, imaging, protein or metabolic data. The guidelines cannot be treated as an individual certificate or used to determine the compliance of a specific project.
Limitations：OEWS is pre-tax straight-time wages for employed persons, and commissions, incentive pay and production bonuses may be included while overtime and non-production bonuses and the like are excluded; self-employment business income or enterprise contract settlement amounts do not equal employee wages. Employed persons at outsourcing firms cannot all be excluded merely because the company is outsourced, and this round lacks a breakdown of bonuses, equity and employment forms for this occupation.
Limitations：Long static postures and repetitive operations may cause localized fatigue and injury; adjusting the workstation/posture and alternating tasks and taking short breaks are general guidance. It is not the disease incidence rate for this occupation, a Chinese statutory rest duration or an individual diagnosis.
Limitations：Excessively strong lighting/glare may cause eye strain, and the guidance is to adjust the lighting and screen environment; it is not the incidence rate for this occupation or an individual medical diagnosis.
Limitations：The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round.
Limitations：A specialized practical assessment, not a general occupational entry certificate or a Chinese biosecurity authorization.
Limitations：The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round.
Limitations：The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round.
Limitations：The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round.
Limitations：Scientific research and development 60990, colleges and professional schools 52000, government 48720, pharmaceutical manufacturing 69070 USD annual averages; not the 2025 wage median. The government line excludes state and local government schools and hospitals and USPS.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Limitations：Supports the target duties; the transition distance and ability gaps are editorial suggestions, and the related occupation list does not mean automatic qualification.
Occupational tasks and context/software postings/employment projections do not constitute GenAI adoption causal evidence; education, specialized certificates, institutional appointment and experimental authority are kept separate. Precise Chinese wages, individual certification test center/additional fees and open apprenticeship quotas were not verified, and occupational wording or directory counts are not used to infer equivalence or hiring promises.
Big Five (English) · MBTI (Chinese) · Enneagram (Chinese) · Intelligence and reasoning (Chinese)
Data and records and compliance
| Sample and data and log records |
| Core process | Confirm the task and constraints → check the sample and equipment state → set up and operate according to procedure → observe and collect and record → review anomalies and controls → organize results and hand over and archive. | Prepare, operate, observe, record, review, hand over |
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| Main outputs | Sample sources and handling and preservation, instruments and reagents and lots, standard operating procedures and versions, observations and anomalies and controls and deviations, and the parts needing re-measurement or review and open items. | Reproducible data and samples and records |
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| Responsible party | Routine experimental operations and monitoring and recording are borne by the person themselves according to the duties of the position; when the operating level for pathogenic microorganisms and the selection of biosafety cabinets and protective equipment, decisions on the disposal of hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals and human-related samples, and method modifications and external reporting of results beyond the authorized scope are involved, they are decided by personnel with the corresponding duties and authorization together with the biosecurity and quality and ethics management departments in accordance with the applicable rules, and work must stop and be reported when sample contamination or equipment failure or anomalous data or something beyond the person's authorization is found. | The person themselves and researchers and laboratory colleagues and the biosecurity and quality management departments |
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| Authority and approval | The O*NET2026 new-hire education field lists bachelor's, high school or equivalent, and some college education without a degree, none with percentages, and this is not the education composition of current practitioners. Job Zone Four/SVP7 to under 8 describes the preparation level and cannot be used to infer a fixed number of training years for an individual. The 4,195 training directory items are based on the IPEDS2025—26 directory and 2024—25 degree-award records, not real-time enrollment or occupation-specific courses. The CareerOneStop related directory has 18 items, including BCSI specialized skills, AFS fisheries, NREP environment and AALAS laboratory animal technologist certification; a directory hit is not a general hiring threshold for this occupation or a Chinese national qualification. The detailed page lists 4 example titles that are industry-reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for use in registered apprenticeship programs: upstream and downstream biomanufacturing technician, Dairy Technologist, microbiological quality control technician; these are not 4 currently open employer programs, and quotas, pay and enrollment conditions were not verified. The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round. A national distribution of specific Chinese position education, recruitment and training requirements was not obtained, so check against the actual unit. | Education and preparation |
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| Conclusion boundary | Education, specialized certification, unit employment, laboratory level and personnel admission, and equipment and sample and animal operation and reporting authority are checked separately and do not substitute for one another. NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions. | Not mutually substitutable |
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Occupational scope
Education and preparation path
Onboarding and position authorization
Information and data and sample and record compliance
Work hours and competition and pressure
Continuing training and review
| Institutional and regulatory materials can assist, but the judgment of whether conditions are met and whether to process still rests with the person themselves and authorized personnel; this page does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation. |
| Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one. Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval. When the specific conditions are not met, stop the affected activities and report according to institutional procedure. |
Do not use it this way: Note: this page does not treat any test score as a basis for admission or elimination.
Do not use it this way: Note: this page does not provide emotional ability thresholds and does not equate high scores with competence.
| Testing and inspection technical position | Complete sample preparation and testing and result computation and report drafting according to standard methods, and record according to the requirements of the quality system. | Usually looks at standard methods and quality control and instrument maintenance ability, command of record and traceability and deviation handling requirements, and the awareness of working according to the quality system. | Submit a record containing fictional sample preparation and testing and quality control and deviation handling explanations. | Test results and reports must be issued according to institutional and jurisdictional requirements; this page does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation. |
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| Biological products and pharmaceutical production position | Complete solution preparation and aseptic operations and process monitoring and batch records according to production procedures, and carry out environmental and equipment cleaning and validation. | Usually looks at aseptic operations and clean area behavior standards and batch record quality, command of deviation and change and validation requirements, and the ability to collaborate with production and quality teams. | Submit material containing fictional solution preparation and aseptic operations and process records and deviation handling explanations. | Production and quality activities must be carried out according to institutional and jurisdictional requirements; validation and quality release controls must not be bypassed. |
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| Environment and agriculture testing direction | Take on the collection and preparation and testing and data organization of water and soil and plant and agricultural product samples. | Usually looks at sample collection standards and field and laboratory safety and data processing ability, command of sampling representativeness requirements, and the ability to communicate with the project side. | Submit a record containing a fictional sampling plan and sample handling and testing and data organization explanations. | Field and agricultural testing must be carried out according to institutional and jurisdictional requirements; pesticide residues and contaminants must be handled according to procedure. |
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| Laboratory animals and biological resources direction | Take on the feeding and observation of laboratory animals and assistance with sampling and facility cleaning and recording. | Usually looks at animal welfare and operating standards and observation record quality, command of biosecurity and facility management requirements, and the ability to collaborate with researchers. | Submit material containing fictional feeding and observation and sampling assistance and welfare record explanations. | Where laboratory animals are involved, animal welfare and ethics review requirements must be met; beyond authorization, do not handle them on your own. |
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The CareerOneStop related directory has 18 items, including BCSI specialized skills, AFS fisheries, NREP environment and AALAS laboratory animal technologist certification; a directory hit is not a general hiring threshold for this occupation or a Chinese national qualification. The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round. The detailed page lists 4 example titles that are industry-reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for use in registered apprenticeship programs: upstream and downstream biomanufacturing technician, Dairy Technologist, microbiological quality control technician; these are not 4 currently open employer programs, and quotas, pay and enrollment conditions were not verified.
Chinese recruitment education/experience/mentoring and licensing are checked against the real unit and activity, and no national distribution was verified in this round. NBS2025 scientific research and technical services: urban non-private 182,064 and private 83,560 yuan/year; above-scale enterprises in that industry professional and technical personnel 172,877, managers 324,177 and all personnel 173,855 yuan/year. The education industry non-private 133,539 and private 63,908 yuan/year can be used for comparison with laboratory positions in real education units. All are pre-tax annual averages, not the median/starting salary/monthly wage of biological technicians; choose according to the actual unit's industry and duties, and the enterprise broad job categories are not applied to public institutions.
The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one.
Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval.
Work activities are listed as 41 items on the detailed page with importance scores, the highest being communicating with supervisors or peers or subordinates 85, documenting or recording information 82, organizing and planning and prioritizing work 82, getting information 76, identifying objects and actions and events 76, monitoring processes and materials or surroundings 76, using computers 72, making decisions and solving problems 71, processing information 70, and training and teaching others 70.
Work context: 61% consider precision or accuracy extremely important, 94% are in contact with others continuously, 88% use email every day, 85% wear common protective or safety equipment every day, 61% use their hands continuously or almost continuously, 49% consider repeating the same task extremely important, 81% have only some freedom in making decisions, and 23% face time pressure every day; the interest code is CRI (Conventional 77, Realistic 77, Investigative 73); the visible work style scores are attention to detail 91 and dependability 85 and caution 70 and inquisitiveness 64 and integrity 63 and cooperation 60.
Laboratory instruments are additionally checked against the specific site, operating procedures and training, and posting skills do not prove qualification.
Sample-linked materials that can identify a natural person are personal information, and content including health/biometric data is judged under the sensitive information conditions; animal data does not itself become personal information just because it is biological data, and de-identification does not equal anonymization. Check access, storage and provision according to the processing basis, purpose and minimum necessity. Human genetic resource materials/information are subject to separate specific rules; foreign cooperation, materials leaving the country or the external provision of information are judged separately according to the specific activity for approval, certification, reporting and backup, and security review conditions, without writing all sample data going abroad as uniform approval. System drafts and real sample operations are checked separately for authority and review.
All materials are fictional and contain no real biological samples or human-related samples or experimental data or unpublished research results, real partner information or real internal institutional materials.
All materials and scenarios are fictional, and real biological samples or human-related samples or experimental data or unpublished research results, real partner information, real internal institutional materials or real samples and data restricted by ethics review must not be used.
Complete within 90 to 120 minutes, and public standard operating procedure and instrument manual materials may be consulted, but no real samples may be used and no real experimental operation may be carried out.
In the record, write the experimental purpose and samples and safety requirements, instruments and reagents and supplies and lots, observations and readings and anomalies and deviations, and review and re-measurement and handover and log requirements separately, and mark the parts that need review.
Write the experimental purpose and safety requirements, instruments and reagents and lots, observations and readings and anomalies, review and re-measurement, and handover and archiving separately, and mark anything uncertain as needing review.
After finishing, ask an experienced person to review the operating standards and data review and record completeness, and keep the reasons for changes.
Original data and readings must not be forged or modified in the practice, and no real biological samples or human-related samples or ethics-restricted materials may be used in the practice; operations involving pathogenic microorganisms and hazardous chemicals and laboratory animals must be handled by authorized personnel according to procedure.
The practice does not replace the applicable jurisdiction and institutional laboratory quality and biosecurity management rules, nor does it constitute any practice for circumventing regulation; original data and readings must not be forged or modified in the practice, and no real biological samples or human-related samples or ethics-restricted materials may be used in the practice.
Note the source and data period and jurisdiction for each item; leave items that cannot be verified blank and mark them as insufficient evidence, without filling them in with speculation.
List education, vocational training, industry certification, laboratory quality and biosecurity training, biosecurity level and equipment and sample and animal authorization, chemical and waste management, result reporting and sample transfer authorization, and sample and data and record retention requirements separately to avoid conflating them; also note that the wage and employment and industry data for this occupation are all in the 19-4021.00 scope for this occupation with labels at every occurrence, and that on the mainland China side only industry and broad-scope statistics exist and this page gives no figures.
Keep the review comments together with the reasons for changes as evidence of whether you can accept review.
Hand the review to colleagues and the mentor or supervisor for review, and keep the review comments and reasons for changes.
Handling biological samples and human-related samples and commercial data requires authorization first, and the receipt and use and preservation and destruction and sharing restrictions must be recorded; samples and restricted data must not be stored or transferred outside authorized areas and systems.
| Stage | Possible assessment methods | Observable evidence | Boundary |
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| Before the interview | Check the institution type and laboratory type and employment form of the position, the biosecurity level and equipment and sample and animal and chemical conditions, the shift and on-call arrangements, and the quality and biosecurity and record retention requirements, and prepare experimental operation and recording samples. | A requirements checklist with sources and data periods; able to explain clearly the differences between this occupation and adjacent directions (bioinformatics technicians, medical and clinical laboratory technicians, chemical technicians, calibration technicians, agricultural technicians, cytogenetic technologists) in core objects and delivery and authorization. | Do not treat having done a laboratory course or being able to use one instrument as proof that you can independently decide the experimental plan or handle pathogenic microorganisms and laboratory animals. |
| During the interview | Situational question: a key reading deviates from expectations, but the sample size is limited and the delivery deadline is near, and the instrument was recently calibrated. How do you handle it? | Able to explain that data must be based on controls and replication and calibration status and standard operating procedures, that review and re-measurement or explicit marking of uncertainty comes first, that anomalies and open items are reported truthfully, and that data are not delivered first and records added later because of time pressure. | Do not selectively keep data or modify readings after the fact, and do not make external commitments about results or transfer samples on your own. |
| Probation period | Complete sample handling and instrument operation and recording according to institutional standard operating procedures, and accept the mentor's or supervisor's review of the basis and records and biosecurity and quality standards. | Sample and instrument and reagent and lot and data and log records are complete; anomalies and failed runs are explicitly marked; biosecurity and chemicals and animal welfare and protection requirements are implemented in place. | Do not skip training and approval and review requirements, and do not carry out operations when the biosecurity level or authorization is unclear. |
| 90 days after onboarding | Check whether pre-job training, the biosecurity level and equipment and sample and animal and chemical authorization, the handling and sharing and destruction requirements for human-related samples and biological data and commercial data, and the authorized scope for result reporting and sample transfer are in place. | Able to independently complete common experimental operations and recording and review; training and authorization status confirmed in writing. | Authorization and training must be confirmed in writing and not replaced by verbal promises. |
Output: a one-page scope and process comparison table, noting the source of each item.
Output: an experimental purpose and safety requirement description.
Output: a preparation and operation description.
Output: an observation and recording and anomaly description.
Output: a review and handover record.
Output: review comments and a change explanation.
Output: a one-page decision statement with an evidence list.
| Qualification/certificate | Suitable audience | Role of the position | Whether it is a general threshold | Conditions | Investment | Boundary |
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| Bachelor's degree or associate's degree or high school or equivalent | People who wish to enter this occupation | Determines whether the basic requirements of the position can be met. | The O*NET2026 new-hire education field lists bachelor's, high school or equivalent, and some college education without a degree, none with percentages, and this is not the education composition of current practitioners. Job Zone Four/SVP7 to under 8 describes the preparation level and cannot be used to infer a fixed number of training years for an individual. The 4,195 training directory items are based on the IPEDS2025—26 directory and 2024—25 degree-award records, not real-time enrollment or occupation-specific courses. | Completed according to the program length. | According to the program length in years. | Education does not equal authorization for pathogenic microorganism operations or animal disposal or result reporting. |
| The employer's laboratory quality and biosecurity and chemical and animal welfare training and on-the-job mentoring | People entering a specific institution | Determines whether one can carry out experiments and deliver data according to institutional procedures. | Specific institutions and activities require training according to the applicable safety standards, and a uniform threshold for most Chinese employers cannot be inferred from the Job Zone. | Must complete the quality and biosecurity and chemical and animal welfare training and assessment arranged by the institution, and accept mentoring according to the project. | As arranged by the institution. | Pre-job training does not equal the institution's biosecurity level and sample disposal and reporting authorization. |
| Related specialized certifications such as BCSI | People who need to verify the corresponding specialized skill | Proof of a specialized skill; whether the employer accepts it is checked separately | The CareerOneStop related directory has 18 items, including BCSI specialized skills, AFS fisheries, NREP environment and AALAS laboratory animal technologist certification; a directory hit is not a general hiring threshold for this occupation or a Chinese national qualification. | The BCSI micro-credential is used for specialized skill assessment. Lab Bench assesses aseptic transfer, Quantitative Lab Skills I assesses proctored calculation, and Regulatory Auditor Communication assesses audit communication; none of the three O*NET question sets requires more than 2 years of academic training or experience, and they require an examination and 2-year recertification. The issuing body FAQ generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, retakes must wait 30 days and cost 20 USD, certificates last 2 years and are renewed free of charge with evidence that the skill is still in use; this is not a uniform fee for all 18 certifications, and individual test centers, materials or additional fees were not verified in this round. | BCSI generally charges 20 USD per skill per attempt, the same price for retakes and is valid for 2 years, with free renewal on evidence that the skill is still in use; the scope of other certifications is checked separately. | It is not a Chinese national qualification, a biosecurity authorization or a fee standard shared by all 18 items. |
| Example titles approved for registered apprenticeship programs | People checking specific open programs | Can be used to search for training directions | The detailed page lists 4 example titles that are industry-reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for use in registered apprenticeship programs: upstream and downstream biomanufacturing technician, Dairy Technologist, microbiological quality control technician; these are not 4 currently open employer programs, and quotas, pay and enrollment conditions were not verified. | This round did not obtain specific employers, quotas or enrollment conditions. | Specific program pay/cost/duration were not verified. | Example titles are not currently open programs or automatic authorization upon completion. |
| Vocational training and continuing education (experimental methods and instruments) | People who wish to add method and instrument capabilities | Serves as proof of training in aseptic operations and instrument and analytical methods. | The O*NET2026 new-hire education field lists bachelor's, high school or equivalent, and some college education without a degree, none with percentages, and this is not the education composition of current practitioners. Job Zone Four/SVP7 to under 8 describes the preparation level and cannot be used to infer a fixed number of training years for an individual. The 4,195 training directory items are based on the IPEDS2025—26 directory and 2024—25 degree-award records, not real-time enrollment or occupation-specific courses. | Complete the courses and assessment as arranged by the training institution and the employer. | Maintained as arranged by the institution and per course validity. | Completing training is limited to a course and version scope and does not equal biosecurity and reporting authorization. |
| Mainland China side: biosecurity and hazardous chemical management requirements | People carrying out related experiments and testing in mainland China | Determines whether experimental activities and chemical use are compliant. | Biosecurity Law as amended in 2024: pathogenic microorganism experiments are carried out according to the corresponding level and national standards and technical procedures; high-level laboratories carrying out activities with highly pathogenic or suspected highly pathogenic agents and other prescribed situations such as pathogens not yet found or declared eradicated in our country require separate approval from the competent authorities, and it cannot be said that all biological experiments require the same kind of approval. Institutional establishment, personnel admission, and animal and waste disposal responsibilities are checked separately. The Law on the Safety of Hazardous Chemicals took effect on May 1, 2026. Articles 46 through 52 cover user units such as schools, research institutions, medical institutions and testing organizations: conditions of use, systems/operating procedures and the provision of safety data sheets/labels to employees, training and emergency measures are implemented separately. The safe use permit under Article 48 is aimed at chemical enterprises engaged in production using designated types and reaching quantity thresholds, and not every laboratory technician or every research laboratory has to obtain one. | Must complete the employer's training and obtain the corresponding approval or filing or authorization as required. | Maintained as arranged by the competent authorities and the institution. | Training and authorization cannot exempt legal liability; this page does not provide any practice for circumventing regulation. |
Readiness evidence：Mentoring records, procedure and standard documents, audit and review summaries.
Credential boundary：Complete training in mentoring and standard operating procedures and biosecurity procedures.
Next moves：Mentor newcomers, participate in developing the institution's standard operating procedures and biosecurity and quality procedures, and handle method transfer and quality audit coordination issues.
Typical scope：Responsible for laboratory quality and safety and compliance responsibility.
Readiness evidence：Laboratory and quality management plans.
Credential boundary：Add training in laboratory quality and safety management.
Next moves：Responsible for an experimental direction or laboratory quality and safety management, or move toward quality and compliance management directions.
Typical scope：Bears responsibility for the accuracy of samples and testing and records.
Readiness evidence：Supervised testing and quality control and record materials.
Credential boundary：Basic training in sample preparation and standard methods and the quality system.
Next moves：Complete sample preparation and testing and recording under supervision and implement the quality system requirements.
Typical scope：Responsible for test results and deviation handling.
Readiness evidence：Independent testing records and deviation and change records.
Credential boundary：Complete training in test method validation and deviations and changes.
Next moves：Independently take on testing and result computation and report drafting and handle deviations and changes.
Typical scope：Responsible for production and validation and record compliance.
Readiness evidence：Production and validation and batch record materials.
Credential boundary：Complete training in clean areas and production and validation.
Next moves：Participate in production process monitoring and validation and batch records and quality release support.
Typical scope：Responsible for the quality system and compliance responsibility.
Readiness evidence：Quality and compliance management plans and audit records.
Credential boundary：Add training in quality and compliance management.
Next moves：Responsible for quality and compliance management in the testing or production direction, or move toward audit and regulatory directions.
Typical scope：Responsible for current position duties and recording accuracy.
Readiness evidence：Position experience description and transferable ability list.
Credential boundary：Laboratory and records and safety common sense.
Next moves：Accumulate operation and recording experience in the current position and record transferable abilities.
Typical scope：Responsible for the truthfulness of the gaps and the plan.
Readiness evidence：Target direction requirements checklist and gap list.
Credential boundary：Clarify the education and qualification and authorization requirements of the target direction.
Next moves：Check education and training and qualification requirements item by item against the target direction (bioinformatics technicians, medical and clinical laboratory technicians, chemical technicians, calibration technicians, agricultural technicians, cytogenetic technologists).
Typical scope：Responsible for the execution of the target direction's tasks and procedures.
Readiness evidence：Training and rotation evaluation records and outputs.
Credential boundary：Add core skills and compliance training for the target direction.
Next moves：Complete the core tasks of the target direction in training or rotation and accept evaluation.
Typical scope：Responsible for the conclusions and records of the target direction's work.
Readiness evidence：Independent work and review records.
Credential boundary：Complete the qualifications and position authorization and independent work of the target direction.
Next moves：Independently take on common tasks according to the target direction's procedures and accept review.
Limitations：Editorial ratings use the existing occupational responsibilities and AI task analysis on this page. They are not adoption rates, measured effects, job-disappearance or personal-unemployment probabilities, or official scores from Stanford or another external institution. No measured time weights or future robot deployment are assumed.
