Enter your home size, crew rate, and travel fee to get a ballpark on what a local move will run. The meter starts when the truck leaves the warehouse and stops when the last box lands.
Estimate only. A crew quotes final price after seeing your stairs, parking, and exact box count.
Local movers price the job as crew size times hourly rate times hours on site, then add a flat travel or truck fee. Home size never enters the formula directly, it only shows up indirectly through the crew size and hours a bigger home needs.
A studio with a 2-person crew usually clears in about 5 hours. A 2-3 bedroom home needs a 3-person crew and closer to 8 hours. A 4-plus bedroom home typically needs a 4-person crew and 11 hours or more. The jump between tiers is rarely the crew size alone, it is the extra hours a bigger, more furnished home adds on both ends of the move.
Two homes with the same square footage can land on different crew sizes. A cluttered garage, a piano, or a wall of bookshelves adds weight and awkward carries that push a 2-3 bedroom job from the low end of its hour range toward the high end. Movers size the crew to the job they see during a walkthrough or video estimate, not to the bedroom count alone.
Run the three home-size presets through the same math the calculator uses, at the default $55 hourly rate and $150 travel fee: a studio at 2 movers for 5 hours comes to $550 in labor plus the fee, for $700 total. A 2-3 bedroom home at 3 movers for 8 hours runs $1,320 in labor, or $1,470 with the fee added. A 4-plus bedroom home at 4 movers for 11 hours reaches $2,420 in labor, $2,570 once the travel fee is included. Swap in your own crew rate above and the totals scale the same way, hours and crew size do the heavy lifting, the travel fee just rides along as a flat add-on.
Stairs and long carries between the truck and the door add time without adding distance on a map, and most crews bill for that time. A building that requires a service elevator reservation can stall a crew for twenty or thirty minutes they still have to bill. Bulky, awkward items such as a piano, a safe, or a treadmill often carry a flat surcharge on top of the hourly rate because they need extra hands or special equipment. None of these show up in a home-size dropdown, which is exactly why the number here is a planning estimate and not a locked quote.
Every hour off the clock comes straight off the bill. Disassemble beds and shelving before the crew arrives, box everything loose, and clear a path from the door to the truck. None of that costs money, and all of it removes billable minutes.
Run the numbers on a longer haul or a rental truck before you commit to a crew.
Plan for $400 to $600 for a studio, $1,200 to $2,000 for a 3-bedroom. Both figures assume a standard day with no access problems.
An hourly rate per mover, multiplied by the crew size and hours worked, plus a truck or travel fee that covers the drive to your door and back to the depot.
Mid-week and off-season dates cost less. Fewer items means fewer hours. Packing yourself before the crew arrives cuts the biggest single chunk of time.
No. Get at least two in-home or video estimates from licensed movers before you commit to anything.