Moving from Los Angeles to Phoenix: 2026 Cost & Time

LA to Phoenix along I-10 is one of the West's highest-volume relocation lanes, fueled by Californians chasing lower housing costs. It's short enough that many crews run it as a single dedicated day-trip, so you'll often see dedicated-truck pricing rather than slower consolidated freight.

Cost by home size

What affects your Los Angeles → Phoenix cost

• Around 373 miles, Los Angeles to Phoenix sits in the middle per-mile tier, so distance and home size pull on the price about equally.
• Booking 3–4 weeks out, and avoiding the last five days of the month, is the simplest way to lower this quote.
• Full packing and specialty items (piano, gym equipment, oversized furniture) are the add-ons most likely to change your final number.

Where the money goes on this move

Any quote for this move is two things added together: the crew hours to load your home and unload it again, and the transport in between. On a 373-mile lane those halves are nowhere near equal, and the bigger one is where your decisions actually land. For a 2-bedroom household, transport is about 52% of the pre-adjustment total here, and 48% at five bedrooms.

Quoting this lane off a flat cents-per-mile number will mislead you. Our model steps the rate down in bands, which puts a 2-bedroom load at roughly $2.98 a mile once averaged across all 373 miles. This route's final mile falls in the 100–500 mi band.

Crew rates at each end of this move

The carrier bills this move on weight and distance, but the people carrying your sofa are hired in two different labor markets, and those markets do not cost the same. These are the local rates we publish for Los Angeles and Phoenix.

Los Angeles is the more expensive labor market of the two, at $216 an hour for a 3-mover crew against $180 in Phoenix — a $36 an hour gap that would matter a great deal if this were a local move at that end, and matters much less on a tariff-priced interstate job.

Rates are only half of it. What the buildings make a crew do is the other half, and it is specific to each end. Los Angeles: Hillside addresses in Silver Lake, Echo Park, and the canyons come with long stair carries and streets no full-size truck can turn on, which routinely forces a shuttle. Westside and downtown towers add COI paperwork and reserved elevators.

Phoenix: Valley housing is overwhelmingly single-story with a garage and a driveway, the fastest configuration a crew can work. The friction here is heat: summer jobs start before sunrise, crews rotate more often, and the clock stretches even on an easy load.

What changes this number

The date you pick and the packing you buy are worth more than the fourth quote you collect. Here is each one in dollars, against a 2-bedroom move on this lane.

Peak season and an end-of-month date compound, so a late-July pickup carries both and lands roughly $489 over the off-peak baseline. It is the largest figure on this page you can change for free.

How this lane prices against its neighbours

The neighbouring lanes, priced on the same basis. A destination two hundred miles further away is often the cheaper move, and only a cost-ranked list shows you that.

Estimates, not quotes: every figure is computed from one published model at $62 per mover per hour plus tiered mileage, and none is attributed to a named company. See the method.