Solo senior move managers: flat-fee quotes that price the slow decisions, short sessions, and family calls. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.
Seniors tire fast, so a senior move is many short sessions, not a few long days. Every session carries its own drive.
Senior move management is not regular moving. The client tires after two or three hours, so the work happens in many short sessions instead of a few long days, and every one of those sessions carries its own drive. Sorting runs slow because every item is a decision with forty years behind it. Adult children call. The care facility has move-in windows and paperwork. This calculator prices all of that into one flat fee you can defend.
Enter your target hourly rate and margin, then pick the project preset closest to the move. Each preset loads starting-point hours for sorting, packing, unpacking, and first-night setup, plus the session count. Adjust the decision slowdown multiplier if the client needs extra time with each item. Add the unbilled-looking hours: family coordination calls, facility windows, donation haul trips, and the drive per session. The tool turns it into a true project cost, a recommended flat fee, and your effective hourly rate on any flat number you were about to quote.
Example only, not typical pricing. A 2-bed downsizing at a $60 target rate: 16 sorting hours at a 1.3 slowdown becomes 20.8 hours, plus 12 packing, 8 unpacking, 4 first-night setup, 4 family coordination, 2 facility, 8 sessions at 30 drive minutes, and 2 donation hauls at 90 minutes. That is 57.8 hours, $3,468 of labor and $96.48 of vehicle, a true cost of $3,564.48 and a recommended flat fee of $4,300. A $3,000 gut quote pays $50.23 an hour, below the $60 target.
Because the pace is different. Short sessions multiply the drive, sorting slows on emotional decisions, family coordination adds unbilled hours, and move-in day includes making the new place livable by nightfall. Price the project, not the truck.
Families like flat fees because the cost is known, but a flat fee only works if it prices every session, call, and haul. Use this calculator to find the true cost first, then quote the flat number above it with your margin.
Put a slowdown multiplier on sorting hours instead of guessing. A 1.3 multiplier turns 16 sorting hours into 20.8. If the first session shows the client needs more time, re-run the math before the flat quote is signed.
They are real project hours. Calls with siblings, care staff, and facility managers routinely add several hours per move. List them as a line item in your estimate so the family sees the work behind the fee.
Short sessions still cost you a drive and a schedule slot. A per-visit minimum protects the days when the client can only manage two hours, which happen often in senior work.