Gallatin Carpet Cleaning has always charged a flat fee per hundred square feet of carpet cleaned. The current fee is $$13\mathrm{.}10$ per hundred square feet. However, there is some question about whether the company is making a profit on jobs requiring considerable travel time. The owner's daughter suggested answering this question by designing an activity$-$based costing system using the information shown below:

$\backslash$table$[[$Activity Cost Pool,Activity Measure,$],[$Cleaning carpets,Square feet cleaned $(00$s$),$Activity for the Year$],[$Travel to jobs,Miles driven,$6,500$ hundred square feet$],[$Job support,Number of jobs,$278,000$ miles$],[$Other $($organization$-$sustaining costs and,,$2,300$ jobs$],[\backslash$table$[[$idle capacity costs$),$None$]],$Not applicable,$]]$

The total cost of operating the company for the year is $$346,000$ which includes the following costs:

$\backslash$table$[[$Wages$,$$$136,000$