Hawkwood Movers, Calgary

A one-bedroom is the shortest day at any of these four sizes: two movers, one truck and a 3.5-hour median across 183 moves of this size in northwest Calgary, with half of them running 2.5 to 5.25 hours. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, and the bed frame and the sofa are usually the only pieces that need both movers at once. Because the rate is hourly, how far the truck can park from the door is what moves a job inside that band.

Two-bedroom jobs are 24% of the work we have completed in Hawkwood, and they run long for the bedroom count: a 7.25-hour median on site with two movers and one truck, and half of the 5 landing between $1,175 and $1,541. That is a house-shaped day rather than a suite-shaped one, which is what two bedrooms usually means in a community built almost entirely of detached homes: a basement and a garage attached to them. Five moves is a small sample; read it as a shape rather than a rate.

At three bedrooms the dispatched median goes to three movers and one truck, and the day to 6.75 hours, taken from 167 moves of this size across northwest Calgary. Half of them landed between $991 and $2,062, and what opens that spread is the garage and the storage room rather than the third bedroom. A bedroom adds boxes; a basement adds a morning. This is the size at which a walkthrough before the date earns its keep, because it is what decides where in that band a job sits.

A four-bedroom-plus move in northwest Calgary runs to a $1,613 median across 60 jobs of this size, with half between $956 and $2,404. The spread is wider than any of the smaller sizes on this page, because at four bedrooms the variable is how much of the house was boxed before the crew arrived. The dispatched median is three movers, one truck and 6.75 hours on site. Packing services and bin rentals exist for exactly this kind of day; the hourly rate is the same one every other job is billed at.