3. Bill Smith is the dining room manager of the Cycle Club. The wages budget for his department is divided between fixed and variable expenses. The work standard for servers is to serve 10 meals per hour. The average wage rate per hour is $12.00. The variable wages budget for servers for the first week of February is $4,800 based on $12.00 per hour. Given the work standard, this is also based on serving 4,000 people. During the first week of February, the server wages totaled $5,200. During the first week of February, the average hourly pay was $11.50 per hour. In addition, 4,200 members were provided service by the servers.

Required:

a. Determine the budget variance for server variable wage expense.

b. Is the budget variance determined in #1 significant? Explain.

c. Rate Bill Smiths performance in managing the servers. Support your discussion

with specific numbers from related variance analyses (rate variance and efficiency variance).