Castle Company has two service departments and two producing departments. The number of employees in each department is:

Personnel	10
Cafeteria	125
Producing Department A	330
Producing Department B	400
	865

The department costs of the Personnel Department are allocated on a basis of the number of employees. If these costs are budgeted at $63,000 during a given period, the amount of cost allocated to Department B under the direct method would be: