Plumley Ad Agency contracted with a company to prepare an ad campaign. Plumley uses a job order costing system. Plumley estimates that the job will take 145 designer hours at $90 per hour and 85 staff hours at $45 per hour. Plumley uses two overhead rates in applying overhead to jobs: Designer-related at $100 per designer hour and staff-related at $50 per staff hour. Determine the total estimated cost for this job.

Question

(Hint: What is total direct labor for each job type and total overhead for each job total? Sum of all of these costs is the total estimated cost for this job).

Answer 1

10