Shawnessy Movers, Calgary

Two movers and one truck cover a one-bedroom move in Shawnessy, and the median job is finished in 3.88 hours on site. Half run between 3 and 5.56 hours, and what moves a job inside that band is the stairs, how far the truck can sit from the door and how much is already boxed when the crew arrives. The work is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of cartons, with the bed frame and a wardrobe usually the only pieces needing both movers at once.

A two-bedroom move here runs longer than the size suggests. The median is 6.88 hours on site with the middle half between 6.44 and 7.75, still on two movers and one truck. A second bedroom's worth of furniture is taking most of a working day here. That is why the $1,185 median sits above the three-bedroom card beside it: the hourly rate is the same one, so the hours are what the figure is made of. Eight moves sit behind it, so read it as a band rather than a quote.

Three movers, one truck, and a median of 4.25 hours on site, drawn from eight completed moves. The band around it is the wide one on this page: half of those eight landed between $596 and $1,603, because at this size the day is as much about the garage, the basement and what has not been packed as about the count of bedrooms. A walkthrough before the date is what tells you which end of that spread your own move sits at.

A four-bedroom-plus move is a different kind of day, and the figures on this card come from 72 of them across southwest Calgary rather than from Shawnessy alone. The median runs 8.38 hours with three movers and one truck, and half fell between $904 and $2,848. That spread follows how much of a large house is packed before the crew arrives and how many trips the stairs take. At this size the walkthrough is most of the quote: it is what turns a house into an estimate in hours.