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The distribution of manufacturing overhead costs to individual product unit, or production batches generally, requires a base or a cost driver, to which reference a rate, known as material burden rate applies. Material burden is the amount of manufacturing overhead costs that a unit of the base carries.
The per unit manufacturing overhead rate calculation, entails multiplying the material burden rate, with the base value of the order or batch. For instance, if the direct labor cost for a specific order is $ 50,000 dollars, then the manufacturing overhead cost is 50,000 x 3 (derived from above example) = $150,000.