Orzel Corporation has provided the following data concerning its overhead costs for the coming year:

Wages and salaries

$240,000

Depreciation

120,000

Occupancy

180,000

Total

$540,000

The company has an activity based costing system with the following three activity cost pools and estimated activity for the coming year:

Activity Cost Pool

Total Activity

Assembly

10,000 labor hours

Order processing

500 orders

Other

Not applicable

The Other activity cost pool does not have a measure of activity; it is used to accumulate costs of idle capacity and organization sustaining costs.

The distribution of resource consumption across activity cost pools is given below:

 

Activity Cost Pools

 

Assembly

Order Processing

Other

Total

Wages and salaries

30%

50%

20%

100%

Depreciation

15%

35%

50%

100%

Occupancy

5%

65%

30%

100%

The activity rate for the Assembly activity cost pool is closest to:

A) $2.70 per labor hour

B) $9.00 per labor hour

C) $9.90 per labor hour

D) $16.20 per labor hour