$6 per hour. Total labor costs per week are fixed. Variable overhead costs are $3,500/ week. The plant operates one 8-hour shift per day, or 40 hours/week. philosophy and the bottleneck method for scheduling. He believes that profitability can indeed be improved if bottleneck resources are exploited to determine the product mix. a. What is the profit if the traditional contribution margin method is used for determining CKC's product mix? The profit with the traditional approach is (Enter your response rounded to the nearest whole number.)