1. Superior Piping Company recently received a contract to install 500,000 feet of new piping in Premier's Nashville manufacturing facility. Its original labor cost budget for this one-year contract was $3,500,000. Due to its workload when it sold the contract, it planned to use its current employees, who average $50,000 compensation per year. However, in the meantime it has secured some other contracts on which it needs to put some of its current workers. Now, Superior plans to produce 25% of the needed work with workers from outside the company. Although it will have to pay the new workers the same rate as its current workers, it anticipates that the new workers will be 15% less productive than the ones it already employs. If you assume all workers begin on the first day of the project, what should be Superior's new labor budget for this project?

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