Billy Sporting Goods manufactures sleeping bags.The manufacturing standards per sleeping bag, based on 5,000 sleeping bags per month, are as follows:

Direct material of 5.00 yards at $5.00 per yard

Direct labor of 3.00 hours at $18.00 per hour

Overhead applied per sleeping bag at $15.00

In the month of April, the company actually produced 5,200 sleeping bags using 27,300 yards of material at a cost of $5.50 per yard.The labor used was 11,700 hours at an average rate of $16.50 per hour.The actual overhead spending was $96,200.

Determine the labor rate variance and round to the nearest whole dollar.Enter a favorable variance as a negative number.Enter an unfavorable variance as a positive number.