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Riverside Florists uses an activity-based costing system to compute the cost of making floral bouquets and delivering the bouquets to its commercial customers. Company personnel who earn $210,000 typically perform both tasks; other firm-wide overhead is expected to total $50,000. These costs are allocated as follows:

Bouquet
Production Delivery Other
Wages and salaries 60% 30% 10%
Other overhead 50% 40% 10%

Riverside anticipates making 29,000 bouquets and 3,000 deliveries in the upcoming year.

The cost of wages and salaries and other overhead that would be charged to each bouquet made is?

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