Tiger Furnishings produces two models of cabinets for home theater components, the Basic and the Dominator. Data on operations and costs for March follow:

	Basic		Dominator		Total
Units produced		1,000		250		1,250
Machine-hours		4,500		2,500		7,000
Direct labor-hours		3,000		2,000		5,000
Direct materials costs	$	10,000	$	3,750	$	13,750
Direct labor costs		64,500		35,500		100,000
Manufacturing overhead costs						175,000
Total costs					$	288,750

Required:

Compute the predetermined overhead rate assuming that Tiger Furnishings uses direct labor-hours to allocate overhead costs.

Predetermined Overhead Rate __$___________per direct labor hour