What NYC Customers Paid to Move Furniture: 15 Real Laborhutt Moves
What did NYC customers actually pay to move furniture? See 15 completed Laborhutt moves, customer totals, and examples for couches, dressers, and more.
A desk moved within Queens for $55. A couch went from the Bronx to Queens for $88. A dresser moved within Brooklyn for $104.50.
Those are recorded customer totals from completed Laborhutt jobs.
If you’re trying to budget for a furniture move, actual transactions give you something concrete to compare with your quote. They also reveal why a single “NYC moving price” can be misleading.
We reviewed 15 completed moves containing identifiable furniture, with pickup and delivery both inside New York City. Ten involved exactly one furniture item. Five contained multiple items, sometimes including boxes or other belongings.
The requests date from June 2026 through July 2026. Here’s what those customers paid, and what the records can tell you about your own move.
What one piece of furniture cost to move
Across the ten single-item jobs:
The median puts the middle of this small sample at about $102. Half the recorded totals were below that midpoint and half were above it.
That can help you set an initial budget. It doesn’t tell you whether your couch will cost $88 or $165 to move.
For that, the individual jobs are more useful.
The actual prices, by furniture item
The dresser prices are particularly useful: four moves, four different totals.
Calling all four jobs “one dresser delivery” hides the details a mover needs to price the work. A dresser’s dimensions, weight, route, and building access can differ considerably.
These records establish what the customers paid. They don’t isolate how much each detail added to the price.
The desk, mattress, and table each have only one observation. Treat those prices as examples, rather than standard rates.
Six moves you can compare with your own
Notice that the table and two chairs cost the same as the single couch: $88.
Three items did not automatically make that job more expensive than one item. The sample also includes a dresser moving within Brooklyn for more than the couch crossing from the Bronx to Queens.
Neither comparison proves that item count or distance is unimportant. It shows why those details alone aren’t enough to judge a quote.
Describe the whole move before comparing prices.
An $80 offer can mean an $88 customer total
For the Bronx-to-Queens couch delivery, the recorded mover quote was $80. The recorded customer total was $88.
That distinction matters when you’re budgeting.
If one option shows the mover’s offer and another shows the final customer total, the prices aren’t directly comparable yet.
Ask:
“What is the total I’ll pay for this job, including the recorded fees and the work we’ve discussed?”
Then confirm whether that work includes:
- Loading and unloading
- Carrying the furniture from the pickup apartment
- Carrying it into the destination apartment
- The stairs at both buildings
- Any required disassembly or assembly
The prices in this article use recorded customer totals, rather than mover offers.
What the multi-item jobs tell us
The five completed jobs containing multiple items and identifiable furniture cost $88 to $165, with an average of $147.40.
That sample includes mixed loads. It is not five identical furniture deliveries.
The $154 Queens-to-Brooklyn job, for example, included a mattress, bed frame, TV, and other belongings. The $88 job on the same borough route contained a table and two chairs.
Those are useful examples if you’re moving a few possessions. They don’t establish a price for an apartment move, and they don’t support assigning a fixed charge to each additional item.
When requesting offers, list everything you want transported. A quote for a mattress should not have to become a mattress, bed frame, TV, and boxes quote after the mover arrives.
Put the delivery cost beside the purchase price
Suppose you find a used couch for $100.
If your delivery quote is $88, your purchase-and-delivery budget becomes $188, before any additional charges.
If delivery is $165, it becomes $265.
Both delivery prices appear in our completed couch sample. That difference can change whether the purchase works for your budget.
Before committing to the seller, get the information needed for a delivery quote:
The item: Photos, dimensions, and anything unusually heavy.
The pickup: Address, floor, elevator access, and the seller’s available pickup window.
The destination: Address, floor, elevator access, and the path into your apartment.
The work: Whether parts need removing, whether assembly is required, and where the mover should leave the furniture.
You’re budgeting for getting the furniture where you need it, so the quote should describe that destination clearly.
Compare a rental with the complete job
A rental’s advertised vehicle price is only one input.
Here’s an example using a $19.95 vehicle rental and paid lifting help:
These are illustrative inputs, not a current rental-company quote. Parking, tolls, taxes, and other charges are not included.
Your calculation changes if you already have people who can help, need the truck for several items, or receive different rental terms.
Write down your complete rental estimate, then compare it with a delivery quote covering the same work. Include the time needed to collect and return the vehicle in your decision.
How we selected these records
We read our records and selected completed jobs with identifiable furniture, both endpoints inside NYC borough boundaries, an accepted quote, and payment recorded as captured or transferred.
We excluded unaccepted offers, customer budgets, and jobs whose payment records did not meet those criteria. We also excluded generic size categories such as “LARGE” from the furniture statistics because they don’t identify what was moved.
The resulting sample contains 15 jobs, including 10 single-item furniture moves.
Customer totals include fees recorded. They do not establish tips or charges outside those records, and we did not perform a separate reconciliation with Stripe.
This is a small sample of Laborhutt transactions. It supports the examples above, rather than a citywide average or a guaranteed price for a new job.
Get a quote for the furniture you’re moving
The closest example in this article can help you start a budget. Your item, route, and building access determine what movers need to quote.
Enter your pickup and delivery details, describe the furniture, and include the carrying requirements. Then compare the total prices for the same job.
