$112 a desk, $82 a task chair, $78 a monitor — or price the whole floor as truck-fill, $325 to $985. Desks, Aeron-class chairs, conference tables, filing cabinets, monitors and the lobby Peloton, out of South Lake Union, downtown, Bellevue and Redmond towers. We file the COI, book the freight elevator and dock, and route every monitor and desktop to WA E-Cycle — where they legally have to go.
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Upload Photos & Get Quote →Wide shots of the floor, plus a note on the address, the floor number and whether the building has a freight elevator. Counts help — twelve desks, thirty chairs, a wall of monitors. An exact flat price comes back in seconds.
We file the Certificate of Insurance naming management, reserve the freight elevator and the loading dock, and take the window they'll give us — including evenings and weekends in the towers that require it.
The crew breaks down workstations, carries everything to the dock, and splits the load at the yard: donation, scrap metal, E-Cycle, garbage. You get the floor back broom-clean and, on request, donation receipts.
Two ways to price it, and we quote whichever comes out lower for your job. A handful of items prices per piece. A floor, a suite or a whole warehouse aisle prices by volume — how much of the truck it fills.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Monitor | $78 |
| Printer (desktop / small) | $78 |
| Filing cabinet — 2-drawer / small | $81 |
| Task chair / office chair | $82 |
| Desktop tower | $83 |
| Metal shelving unit | $95 |
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Storage cabinet | $99 |
| Filing cabinet — 4-drawer / lateral | $101 |
| Box of mixed electronics (cables, keyboards, docks) | $104 |
| Peloton | $108 |
| Desk (standard) | $112 |
| Commercial copier | $131 |
| Desk — L-shaped / corner | $139 |
| Treadmill (office gym) | $155 |
| Conference table | $201 |
Whole floors price as truck-fill: quarter truck $325 · three-eighths $455 · half $580 · five-eighths $690 · three-quarters $790 · seven-eighths $890 · full truck $985. A packed 10×20 storage unit of dead inventory, old signage and spare furniture is $1,435. Past a dozen workstations, volume pricing almost always beats per-piece — send the photos and we'll tell you which one your job lands in.
About the $95 minimum: $95 is the floor for dispatching a truck and a crew anywhere in the metro. One task chair at $82 or a single monitor at $78 would bill at $95 on its own; put two or three items together and each prices at its own number. On a real office job the minimum never comes up.
Third-party context. Cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325. For commercial volume, published figures for the national franchises run about $700–$1,000 for a full truck, quoted on site only — which on an office job means a facilities manager finds out the number with a crew already standing in the space and a dock window ticking. Ours is fixed from photos, before anyone is dispatched.
On tax. Washington does not apply its retail sales tax — roughly 10.35% in Seattle — to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax (RCW 82.18) does apply, on the disposal portion. It appears on the invoice as its own line, correctly named. Note the useful corollary for a commercial clear-out: everything we divert to donation, scrap or E-Cycle sits outside that tax base entirely, because it is never disposed.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU special-items pickup | $30 per item | Next garbage day | Not available to you. Residential, curbside-only program — a commercial tenant cannot book it |
| Staff self-haul to a transfer station | SPU South station ~$35 min/trip as published · King County Bow Lake $40.25 min, $243.38/ton, +$25 unsecured | Several trips, several days | Your employees are moving desks in a leased truck, and the e-waste can't legally go in that load anyway |
| Liquidator / used-office-furniture dealer | Free to paid, sometimes pays you | Weeks | They cherry-pick only current, resellable systems furniture — and leave the rest for you to deal with |
| Traditional full-service franchise | ~$700–$1,000 full truck (third-party figures) | 1–3 days | On-site estimate only, so the number lands after the dock window is already booked |
| JunkRabbit | $112/desk or $325–$985 truck-fill, flat | Same day for a suite; dock-window scheduled for a floor | None — flat photo price, COI filed, e-waste routed to E-Cycle, donation receipts on request |
Worth saying plainly: if a liquidator will buy your workstations, take that deal first. Current-generation systems furniture and late-model Aerons have real resale value and we'd rather you capture it. We're for the other 80% of the floor — the mismatched desks, the dead monitors, the filing cabinets nobody has opened since 2019, and the pieces the liquidator walked past.
No — and this is the single most common misunderstanding we correct on commercial calls. Seattle Public Utilities' special-items pickup at $30 per item (seattle.gov/specialitems) is a residential curbside program. It is booked by appointment against a household's regular garbage day and collected from the curb. A startup office on the fourth floor, a biotech lab, or a floor of thirty workstations is commercial waste and cannot use it at all. There is no municipal truck coming for your desks, at any price.
Commercial disposal is a self-haul or hauler proposition. Inside city limits that means SPU's South Recycling & Disposal Station at 8105 5th Ave S, where the published self-haul minimum runs around $35 per trip; a 2025 study cited a commercial rate near $234.80 per ton. SPU's own rate page has been carrying a 2023 date, so treat both numbers as indicative and confirm the current gate rate before you plan around it. On the Eastside and across the county the operator is King County Solid Waste — Bow Lake in Tukwila and its sister stations charge $243.38 per ton with a $40.25 minimum per load and $25 more if the load is not properly secured. Office furniture is bulky and surprisingly heavy; a floor's worth is tons, not pounds.
Now the part that actually bites: the electronics. In Washington, monitors, laptops, desktops and TVs are banned from the garbage — you may not legally throw them out — and they are recycled free statewide through the manufacturer-funded WA E-Cycle program (ecyclewa.org, or 1-800-RECYCLE). Free is excellent for a household with one dead laptop. For an office it collides with the program's practical limit of around ten units per visit. Clear one floor of workstations and you are instantly over — thirty monitors, twenty towers, a pile of docks — which turns "free recycling" into a multi-drop routing problem someone has to actually solve. That is a real part of what you're paying a hauler to do, and it is why the honest version of this page says the e-waste line covers labour and routing, not a tip fee.
And the load has to arrive sorted. Seattle's SMC 21.36 rules require source-separation of recyclables — cardboard, metal and clean wood among them — out of the garbage, with loads over roughly 10% contamination subject to a violation tag. A commercial clear-out generates exactly the materials the ordinance targets: flattened boxes, steel desk frames, filing cabinets, particleboard and clean lumber. Tipping it as one mixed pile is both the expensive way and the non-compliant way.
So the summary for a Seattle facilities manager: there is no city pickup for you, the transfer-station route is priced by the ton, the electronics are legally excluded from the garbage and capped at the free recycler, and the load has to be separated before it arrives. That is the job. We price it as one flat number.
Donation first, where it is genuinely resellable. Habitat for Humanity ReStore and St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle/King County both take usable desks, cabinets, shelving and conference furniture, and a donation receipt is available on request for your books. We'll also be blunt when it isn't realistic: laminate desks with swollen edges, chairs with failed cylinders and anything with a broken frame are declined, and pretending otherwise just wastes a trip.
Metal goes to scrap. Desk frames, filing cabinets, steel shelving, racking and copier chassis are dense and clean — they leave the load as recycling rather than tonnage.
Electronics go to WA E-Cycle at zero tip cost. Monitors, desktops and laptops are handled through the free statewide program rather than paid disposal, which is the correct route legally and the cheap one. Across several drops when the volume demands it.
Cardboard and clean wood are separated because SMC 21.36 requires it and a contaminated commercial load gets tagged. There's a margin logic underneath all of this that's worth being transparent about: diverted material avoids the per-ton gate fee, and because the 3.6% Washington refuse tax is calculated on disposal, everything diverted sits outside that tax base too. Compliance, cost and your flat price all point the same direction — which is exactly why we can hold the number we quoted.
South Lake Union. Amazon's home campus plus a wall of 2010s–2020s glass towers, and the signature driver of this entire market: tech churn. Hiring waves, layoffs, relocations and hybrid-work consolidation cycle standing desks, monitors and Pelotons constantly. The buildings are strict — a COI naming building management, typically $1M general liability per occurrence, a freight elevator reserved days in advance, and a dock window that is frequently after-hours. We file and book both.
Downtown & Belltown. The financial core's towers work the same way, with tighter dock scheduling and a front desk that will turn a crew away without paperwork. There is no curb in play here at all — furniture leaves through the loading dock or it does not leave.
Downtown Bellevue. The Eastside's tower belt has the same COI-and-freight-elevator regime as Seattle proper, with the added wrinkle that many buildings run stricter certificate-of-insurance review and want the vendor's paperwork ahead of the elevator reservation, not alongside it. Plan a day of lead time.
Redmond & the Microsoft corridor. Constant relocation churn in and out of low-rise campuses, leased suites and Overlake offices — usually easier access than a downtown tower, usually faster to schedule.
Fremont. Google and Adobe put real office density into a neighbourhood of converted and mid-rise buildings. Smaller suites, tighter loading, street-level access more often than a dock.
Georgetown & SoDo. The warehouse and distribution belt — brick industrial buildings, roll-up doors, pallet racking, dead inventory and C&D. Easy access by comparison, heavy loads by weight, and scheduling that sometimes has to dodge stadium traffic.
Sit-stand desks, task chairs, monitors and a Peloton nobody claimed. COI filed with management, freight elevator booked for a 6pm window. Priced as three-quarter truck-fill, $790 flat — monitors and towers dropped at E-Cycle at no tip cost.
Two floors down to one: conference tables, lateral files, storage cabinets and a commercial copier. Certificate reviewed by management a day ahead, dock window on a Saturday morning. Full truck-fill, $985 flat, donation receipt for the usable desks.
Pallet racking, damaged product, old signage and a decade of packaging out of a roll-up door. Steel racking to scrap, cardboard separated per SMC 21.36. Priced as a packed 10×20 unit at $1,435.
Representative job types and real prices from our Seattle list — not customer testimonials. We publish star ratings only when they come from a verified Google Business Profile.
How much does office furniture removal cost in Seattle?
Per piece: desk $112, L-shaped desk $139, task chair $82, conference table $201, filing cabinet $81 small / $101 large, storage cabinet $99, metal shelving $95, bookshelf $97, monitor $78, desktop $83, small printer $78, commercial copier $131, electronics box $104, Peloton $108, treadmill $155. By volume: $325 quarter truck to $985 full; a 10×20 storage unit $1,435. $95 minimum, carry-out and disposal included.
Can our office use Seattle's $30 special-items pickup?
No. It's a residential, curbside-only program (seattle.gov/specialitems) — commercial tenants can't book it. Your route is SPU's South station at 8105 5th Ave S, or King County's Bow Lake at $243.38/ton with a $40.25 minimum, or a hauler.
What about monitors, laptops and desktops?
They're banned from the garbage in Washington and recycled free through WA E-Cycle (ecyclewa.org · 1-800-RECYCLE). The program caps around ten units a visit, which one floor blows past immediately — so the routing across multiple drops is the actual work, and it's included.
Can you provide a COI and book the freight elevator?
Yes — a certificate naming building management, typically $1M general liability, plus the reserved freight car and dock window. SLU, downtown, Belltown, First Hill and downtown-Bellevue towers all expect it. The price doesn't change.
Can you work after hours or on a weekend?
Usually — and in most towers it's the only window management will approve. No after-hours surcharge.
Where does it all end up?
Resellable furniture to Habitat ReStore or St. Vincent de Paul with a receipt on request; metal to scrap; monitors and towers to E-Cycle; cardboard and clean wood separated per SMC 21.36. Diverted material also stays outside the 3.6% refuse tax base.
Is there sales tax on a commercial clear-out?
Washington's retail sales tax (~10.35% in Seattle) does not apply to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse tax (RCW 82.18) applies to the disposal portion. Not "no tax" — the right tax, named correctly.
No. SPU's special-items pickup at $30 per item is a residential curbside program — it is scheduled onto a household's regular garbage day and collected from the curb (seattle.gov/specialitems). A startup office, a lab, or a floor of workstations is commercial waste and does not qualify at all. Commercial disposal runs through SPU's South Recycling and Disposal Station at 8105 5th Ave S, or through King County's Bow Lake station in Tukwila at $243.38 per ton with a $40.25 minimum and a $25 fee for an unsecured load. There is no city program that will come get your desks.
Yes, and this is the part most people get wrong. Monitors, laptops, desktops and TVs are banned from the garbage in Washington and are recycled free statewide through WA E-Cycle (ecyclewa.org, 1-800-RECYCLE), which is manufacturer-funded. The catch is a per-visit cap of roughly ten units, which a single floor of workstations blows past on the first trip. That is why a compliant hauler on an office job is doing real logistics rather than just carrying boxes: the machines have to be separated, staged and delivered across multiple drops. Priced per piece, a monitor is $78, a desktop tower $83 and a box of mixed small electronics $104 — that is the labour and the routing, not a tip fee, because the E-Cycle drop itself costs nothing.
Yes. South Lake Union, downtown Seattle, Belltown, First Hill and downtown-Bellevue towers almost all require a Certificate of Insurance naming building management as additional insured, typically at least $1M general liability per occurrence, before a vendor may touch the freight elevator. They also want the freight car and the loading dock reserved days in advance, often for an after-hours or early-morning window. We file the certificate and book the window with property management, and the quoted price does not change because of it.
Resellable furniture goes to donation first — Habitat for Humanity ReStore and St. Vincent de Paul both take usable desks, cabinets and shelving, and a donation receipt is available on request for your books. Metal desks, frames, filing cabinets and shelving go to scrap. Monitors, desktops and laptops go to WA E-Cycle at zero tip cost. Cardboard and clean wood are source-separated because Seattle's SMC 21.36 requires it and a contaminated commercial load gets tagged. Everything diverted also sits outside the 3.6% state refuse tax base, which is calculated on disposal.
Washington does not apply its retail sales tax, roughly 10.35% in Seattle, to junk-removal service. What applies is the 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax under RCW 82.18, charged on the disposal portion of the job. It is a small, real line and we would rather show it on the invoice correctly than tell you there is no tax.
A handful of workstations is same-day across Seattle and the Eastside. A full floor is normally scheduled around the building rather than around us — the lead time comes from the COI, the reserved freight elevator and the dock window, not from our calendar. Send photos of the space, tell us the address and the building's rules, and we come back with a flat number and the dates the dock is actually available.