Downtown Commercial Core Movers, Calgary

$657 is the median one-bedroom move here, and it is the job this neighbourhood does most, at 42% of everything we have completed inside the boundary. Two movers and one truck, 4 hours on site at the median, with half of those 42 moves running 3.17 to 5 hours and landing between $482 and $833. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes; what varies is the wait for the lift and how far the loading bay sits from the suite.

A two-bedroom here is a longer day than the count of rooms suggests: 6 hours on site at the median against 4 for a one-bedroom, still with two movers and one truck. Half of the 11 jobs completed at this size ran 5.5 to 7.63 hours and fell between $950 and $1,419, around a $1,002 median. Two bedrooms of furniture is part of it; the rest is that a bigger load makes more trips through the same single lift.

These figures describe three-bedroom houses and townhouses across southwest Calgary rather than this neighbourhood, which has too few of its own at this size to publish a band. At that size the median dispatch is three movers and one truck, and the median day runs 6.25 hours on site, with half of the 187 moves between 4.25 and 8.63 hours. The median came to $1,336 and the middle half to $868 and $1,956. That is a wide spread, because a garage and a basement vary far more than a suite does.

A four-bedroom-plus move is a full working day, and this card reads southwest Calgary as a whole rather than this neighbourhood alone. Three movers and one truck is the median dispatch and 7.88 hours the median time on site, with half of the 64 moves running 4 to 10.19 hours. The median total was $1,920 and the middle half $844 to $3,011. The hourly rate is the one every other job is billed at; what stretches the day is how much of the house is packed before the crew arrives.