Johnson Co$.$ makes organic non$-$GMO vegetable seed packets for the chef$/$gardener market. The standard labor to count and assemble each packet is $0\mathrm{.}15$ hours at a cost of $$17\mathrm{.}00$ per hour. Johnson Co$.$ budgeted to make $65,000$ seed packets but due to high demand, they ended up making $73,000$ packets. They paid $$316,008$ for $18,480$ hours of packet assembly time.

What is their labor efficiency variance for this period? Enter a favorable variance is a positive number and an unfavorable variance as a negative number.

Enter as a whole number, no commas and no dollar signs.

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