AirMeals, Inc., prepares in-flight meals for a number of major airlines. One of the company's products is stuffed cannelloni with roasted paper sauce, fresh baby corn, and spring salad. During the most recent week, the company prepared 6,000 of these meals using 1,150 direct labor-hour.The company paid these direct labor workers a total of $11,500 for this work, or $10 per hour.
According to the standard cost card for this meal, it should require 0.20 direct labor-hours at a cost of $9.50 per hour.