The following information relating to a company's overhead costs is available.

Actual total variable overhead	$73,000
Actual total fixed overhead	$17,000
Budgeted variable overhead rate per machine hour	$2.50
Budgeted total fixed overhead	$15,000
Budgeted machine hours allowed for actual output	30,000

Based on this information, the total variable overhead variance is:

$2,000 favorable.

$6,000 favorable.

$2,000 unfavorable.

$6,000 unfavorable.

$1,000 favorable.