Rosscarrock Movers, Calgary

A third of Rosscarrock's own book is one-bedroom moves: 5 completed jobs, two movers and one truck, a median of $710 and 4 hours on site. Both bands are tight, half of them between 3 and 4.25 hours and between $572 and $775. Five jobs is a small sample, though, so read the median as its midpoint rather than as a rate. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes; stairs and where the truck can stand are what move a job inside that band.

Fewer than five moves of this size sit inside Rosscarrock's own boundary, so this card is drawn from 416 two-bedroom apartment and condo moves across southwest Calgary. It is two movers and one truck, a median of $932 and 5.25 hours on site, with half running between 3.75 and 6.75 hours and half falling between $665 and $1,294. At this size the lift and the loading spot are worth booking with the building before the date; they are the part of the day nobody else can arrange for you.

Another southwest Calgary figure rather than a Rosscarrock one: 195 three-bedroom house and townhouse moves, three movers and one truck, a median of $1,353 and 6.5 hours on site. Half of them ran between 4.25 and 8.63 hours and half fell between $868 and $1,938. That is where a day stops being about bedrooms. The basement, the garage and how much has been boxed before the crew arrives decide whether a house lands near the bottom of the band or the top.

This card is a southwest Calgary figure too: 67 four-bedroom-plus house moves, three movers and one truck, a median of $1,961 and 8 hours on site. The spread is the widest of the four, half of them running between 4 and 10 hours and falling between $841 and $2,805, because at this size a house that has been packed and one that has not are barely the same job. The hourly rate is the same one every local move is billed at; the hours are what change.