Get pricing · Calgary & Edmonton
What do you need?
Published prices for security, parking and stage crew. Pick what you need, price it in about a minute and send a request. No card, no deposit, and a real person calls you back the same business day.
1Choose a department
2Price it
Load-in to load-out, priced.
Change the headcount, hours or date and the price moves as you type. Minimums, overtime, holidays and the crew chief are already in it, so the number you see is the number we'd quote you on the phone.
Load-in
A crew of six for a six-hour load-in comes to $1,935.25 before GST. One of the six is a working crew chief who starts 30 minutes early, and the calculator sets that up for you.
Who do you need, and when?One line per position, per day
Your call
Load-in, load-out and show calls.
Your price
Pick a date to see your price.
No card, no deposit. A real person calls you back, usually the same business day.
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This price is an estimate, not a booking. Every request is subject to management approval and our booking terms. If we approve it, we send you a final binding estimate to accept. If the scope changes after that, we send an updated estimate to approve, and we never charge more than you've approved.
Ongoing or multi-site? Volume rates exist.
Weekly programs, several sites, season contracts or long-term posts have volume rates. They depend on the hours, the sites and the term, so they start with a conversation.
The fine print, in plain English.
The full version is our Terms and Conditions. This is what it means.
- Four-hour minimum
- Every call bills at least 4 hours a person, or 4.5 for crew chiefs. End times round up to the next half hour.
- Crew chiefs
- Stage crews of up to 9 include a working crew chief. Crew chiefs you ask for yourself count toward this.
- Overtime
- Hours over 8 in a day or 44 in a week bill at 1.5×, whichever adds up to more. The calculator works it out per person.
- Holidays
- Shifts that start on an Alberta general holiday bill at 2×. Easter Monday, Heritage Day, September 30, Boxing Day and New Year's Eve bill at 1.5×. Holiday and overtime rates never stack.
- Short notice
- Ask for a shift less than 48 hours out and a 50% premium applies, because we're pulling people off other plans to cover you.
- Estimates
- Every price here is an estimate, not a booking. Each request is subject to management approval and our booking terms. If we approve it, we send you a final binding estimate to accept. If the scope changes after that, we send an updated estimate to approve, and we never charge more than you've approved.
- Payment
- No deposit and no card online. Once you accept the final estimate and we confirm, our finance team sets up your account from the details you give us and invoices you. Wire, EFT, e-Transfer or cheque; credit cards add 2.4%; debit cards add nothing.
- Cancelling
- A request costs nothing, and if we decline it or can't staff it, you owe nothing. Once it's confirmed, cancel or cut hours inside 24 hours of a shift and those hours bill in full.
- Where
- These prices cover sites with a Calgary or Edmonton address. Elsewhere in Alberta, travel time is billed at each person's hourly rate and counts toward overtime. We price it from your address before we confirm anything.
- Tax
- Prices are before 5% GST. If the work needs radios, a vehicle or accommodation, we price them before you confirm.
Fair questions.
What does xa.LIVE supply?
Stagehands for load-in, load-out and show calls, followspot operators, and crew chiefs who run the call. Touring productions, local shows, corporate events and festivals.
What does each XA department do?
Event security staffs concerts, festivals, sports and private events: entry, bag checks, crowd and floor posts, with supervisors and a dispatcher at scale. Property security puts a licensed guard on a fixed post, such as a lobby, construction site, gate or building, for a shift or around the clock. Mobile patrol is a guard in a marked XA vehicle who checks your sites on a route, or stays dedicated to them. XA Parking runs lots and traffic: entry, payment, directing cars and keeping lanes clear at events and venues. xa.LIVE supplies stage crew: stagehands for load-in and load-out, followspot operators and crew chiefs for touring and local shows. Security work is licensed under Alberta's Security Services and Investigators Act; parking and stage crew don't need a security licence.
Do I pay anything to send a request?
No. There's no deposit and no card. A person checks the request, calls you and, if we can take it, sends you a final binding estimate to accept. Once you accept it, our finance team sets up your account from the billing details you gave us and invoices you.
Can I split the call into load-in, show and load-out?
Yes. Add each call separately in the calculator, with its own start time and headcount. Each one carries its own four-hour minimum.
Is the calculator price the real price?
Inside Calgary and Edmonton, it's the price for what you entered. It moves only if the call does: more people, more hours, or a change inside 24 hours. Outside those two cities we add travel, in the final estimate before anything is booked.
Can I get a better rate?
Volume rates exist for venues, residencies and season programs. They start with a conversation. We don't discount one-off calls.
Online booking requests, business or personal, follow our booking terms.