Yarralumla is a comparatively wealthy suburb with a 2016 median weekly personal income of $1,347; this compares to the figure of $998 for the entire Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and $662 for all of Australia. The public service or defence force employed around 21.7% of the workforce, somewhat less than the ACT average of 23.6%. This compared to 1.9% for Australia as a whole. The higher incomes were derived from the suburb's white-collar base; 63.5% of Yarralumla's workforce was employed as professionals or in managerial posts, compared to 35.2% nationally. In contrast, only 3.4% were engaged in blue-collar occupations, compared with 15.8% for the nation as a whole. The proportion of the population working as tradesmen and technicians was almost four times lower than average across Australia. The proportion of people with a university degree, 53.2%, is higher than the ACT and national averages of 37.1 and 22.0% respectively.