Johnson Co. makes organic non-GMO vegetable seed packets for the chef/gardener market. The standard labor to count and assemble each packet is 0.06 hours at a cost of $16.70 per hour. Johnson Co. budgeted to make 65,000 seed packets but due to high demand, they ended up making 71,000 packets. They paid $316,008 for 18,480 hours of packet assembly time. What is their labor cost variance for this period? Enter a favorable variance is a positive number and an unfavorable variance as a negative number. Enter as a whole number, no commas and no dollar signs.

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Johnson Co. makes organic non-GMO
vegetable seed packets for the chef/gardener
market. The standard labor to count and
assemble each packet is 0.06 hours at a cost of
$16.70 per hour. Johnson Co. budgeted to
make 65,000 seed packets but due to high
demand, they ended up making 71,000
packets. They paid $316,008 for 18,480 hours
of packet assembly time.
What is their labor cost variance for this
period? Enter a favorable variance is a positive
number and an unfavorable variance as a
negative number.
Enter as a whole number, no commas and no
dollar signs.
Transcribed Image Text:Johnson Co. makes organic non-GMO vegetable seed packets for the chef/gardener market. The standard labor to count and assemble each packet is 0.06 hours at a cost of $16.70 per hour. Johnson Co. budgeted to make 65,000 seed packets but due to high demand, they ended up making 71,000 packets. They paid $316,008 for 18,480 hours of packet assembly time. What is their labor cost variance for this period? Enter a favorable variance is a positive number and an unfavorable variance as a negative number. Enter as a whole number, no commas and no dollar signs.
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