Rutherford Movers, Edmonton

Two movers and one truck handle this size across southwest Edmonton, and the middle of those 45 jobs was finished in 4.25 hours on site. Half ran between 2.75 and 7 hours. Stairs, whether a lift is available and how far the truck can park from the door are what move a job inside that band. The work itself is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, with the bed frame and a wardrobe usually the only pieces that need both movers at once.

A second bedroom adds a mover rather than a truck: three movers and one truck is the median dispatch for a two-bedroom apartment or condo move in southwest Edmonton, and the middle of those 42 jobs ran 6 hours on site. Half fell between $616 and $1,744, which is what an hourly rate does to a day whose contents are broadly predictable. These are apartment and condo addresses more often than houses, so a booked lift where one exists and a clear loading spot are worth arranging first.

Three movers, one truck and 8 hours on site at the median. That is a full working day rather than a morning. Half of the 27 three-bedroom house and townhouse moves across southwest Edmonton ran between 6 and 10 hours, and half cost between $1,015 and $2,130, because at this size the garage and the basement matter as much as the bedroom count does. A walkthrough before the date is worth more here than at any smaller size: it is what decides where in that band the day lands.

A four-bedroom-plus house is a different kind of day: 4 movers, one truck and 8.13 hours on site at the median, with half of the 12 southwest Edmonton jobs at this size running between 5.13 and 11 hours. The price band is correspondingly wide, $1,249 to $2,877 for the middle half, so read $2,232 as the centre of a small sample rather than as a rate. The hourly rate is the same one every other job is billed at; what makes the day long is how much of the house is packed before the crew arrives.