# Do you tip movers?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-movers/278778
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 8, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-movers/278778 "2004-12-08T18:13:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-movers/278778/21 "2004-12-09T03:30:40Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> I’m about to relocate to another state. This is the first time ever that my employers has paid for my furniture to be moved so I have the luxury of sitting on my corpulent bum and saying “Put that upstairs, boy, then peel me a grape and sing me a peasant song!” rather than doing the heave-ho myself.
> However, I have no idea whether I’m supposed to tip the movers or if it’s all taken care of by the fee I’m being reimbursed for. Does anybody know, and if so, how much?
Your moving contract was with the moving company. As far as I know you have no responsibility to tip the employees. OTOH if they were exceptionally nice and took good care of your possessions you might want to slip them a 20 or two each to show your appreciation.
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### Author:  [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-movers/278778/22 "2004-12-09T05:01:22Z")
If your soliciting opinions on amount, I think $20 per worker for an in-city move is reasonable.
I wish I had thought to ask this question before we moved into our house. I simply didn’t know if I should or shouldn’t and by the time I managed to get **foxymoron’s** opinion, they had left.
I should have tipped them. I still feel guilty that I didn’t.
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-movers/278778/23 "2004-12-21T21:37:32Z")
> [@Scruloose](#):
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> :eek:
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> That’s a hell of a way to start an anecdote - was everyone OK?
Heh…yes. I gotta say, safety glass is amazing stuff. I heard the truck hit our mailbox, and ran into the living room to see what was going on. I was just in time to watch a Ford F250 drive through my sliding glass door not 15 feet away. I was literally showered in broken glass. As this was last June, and a sweltering 95 degrees, I was clad in only a pair of shorts.
Not one single cut.
Turned out the guy lived a block to the west, and drank himself silly most nights half a mile away to the east. He had also had a dozen or so previous DUIs, and was on a suspended license. In other words, the bastard drove drunk past my house 4 or 5 nights a week over a years time. Lovely thought.
We were fortunate. No injuries, nothing damaged that couldn’t be replaced or rebuilt. He was cited and released, and has since gotten two more DUIs. I guess when he finally kills someone, he’ll do some time.
The sunny side of the story is this: The house we were living in was actually a rental. Since we were forced to move out for a month while it was remodeled, my wife and I decided to stop messing around and finally buy our first house. This gave us the motivation, so some good came out of it.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-movers/278778/24 "2004-12-21T21:44:29Z")
I don’t tip, but I always provide plenty of refreshments, and depending on time of day etc, I’d order sandwiches/pizzas or something.
Geez, those guys are working hard and it’s your stuff they’re lugging up & down the stairs!
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