Institute Technologies is choosing new cost drivers for its accounting system. One driver is labor hours; the other is a combination of machine hours for unit variable costs and number of setups for a pool of batch-level costs. Data for the past year follow. Budget Actual
Labor hours 200,000 200,000
Machine hours 360,000 450,000
Number of setups 3,000 3,300
Unit variable cost pool $1,600,000 $2,000,000
Batch-level cost pool $900,000 $990,000

Assume that both cost pools for Institute are combined into a single pool, and labor hours is the driver. The total flexible budget for the actual level of labor hours and the total variance for the combined pool are:

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