During January, the production department of a process operations system completed and transferred to finished goods a total of $78,000$ units. At the end of January, $9,000$ additional units were in process in the production department and were $65\%$ complete with respect to labor. The beginning inventory included labor cost of $$21,650$ and the production department incurred direct labor cost of $$290,000$ during January. Compute the direct labor cost per equivalent unit for the department using the weighted$-$average method.