Income Percentiles in Yukon: Where Your Income Ranks

About 81% of Yukoners with income live in Whitehorse, and a large share of the territory’s paid jobs are in government, which gives Yukon a solid middle of the income distribution. Living costs in the North are high, so incomes here stretch less far than the same figures in the south. This page shows Yukon’s income percentiles and six-figure share, how tightly they are bunched, where the jobs and pay are, and how the territory’s tax rules and the northern residents deduction apply at the median; the income percentiles overview explains the method.

Yukon income percentile table

Source: Statistics Canada Table 98-10-0064, 2020 income year (2021 Census). Values are interpolated from published $5,000-wide income brackets, not exact published percentiles. StatCan’s own published median for the same population is $54,800, versus this table’s interpolated $53,200, a normal margin for bracket interpolation. A percentile shown as “$150,000+” falls in the open-ended “$150,000 and over” bracket: it is at least $150,000, and the table can’t place it more precisely.

The Census figures cover everyone in Yukon with income in 2020; with a small population, the steps between percentiles rest on fewer people than in the provinces.

Yukon against Canada

Source: Statistics Canada Table 98-10-0064, 2020 income year (2021 Census), interpolated from published income brackets. The 99th percentile is the floor of the open-ended “$150,000 and over” bracket for both geographies, so no meaningful difference can be computed at that row.

Yukon’s percentiles are higher than Canada’s from the bottom row up, and they are also closer together. The 90th percentile, $126,200, was 2.37 times the median of $53,200, a narrower top gap than Canada’s 2.61; the median was 4.7 times the 10th percentile, against 5.1 nationally. Measured this way, Yukon incomes are bunched closer to the middle at both ends than Canada’s are.

Median and six-figure incomes in Yukon

The median Yukoner with income reported $60,850 on their 2023 tax return, higher than the national median of $45,000. 24.0% reported $100,000 or more, above the Canadian share of 14.8%.

Whitehorse and the communities outside it differ more than the territorial median suggests. On the same returns, the median in Whitehorse was $63,910 and in the rest of Yukon $49,760, 22% below the capital’s figure.

Government payrolls and pay in Yukon

Statistics Canada’s payroll survey counted 24,807 jobs in Yukon in 2025. Public administration held 8,163 of them, 33%, about 4 times its 7% share across Canada, and paid an average of $1,818.95 a week. Next came retail trade, with 2,753 jobs. The survey suppresses Yukon’s mining figures, so mining jobs don’t appear in these counts.

Across all industries, average weekly earnings were $1,496.14, about $77,799 over a year of 52 weeks and 15% above the national average. Accommodation and food service jobs averaged $710.95 a week in Yukon, 37% above the $517.99 national figure. Job Bank’s median hourly wages for some common Yukon jobs:

Hourly wages; the Job Bank region is all of Yukon.

What a Yukon income covers

There is no CMHC rent series for Whitehorse in the rental survey tables this site uses, so the cost yardstick here is Statistics Canada’s Market Basket Measure. For one adult in Whitehorse, the cost of that basket of food, shelter, clothing, transportation and other needs was $33,976 in 2025. Yukon’s median after-tax income, counting people with no income, was $55,900 in 2024, about 1.6 times that line. Every territorial region’s threshold for the reference family is above the highest provincial one, Vancouver; families and unattached individuals in Yukon had a median after-tax income of $89,300.

Yukon tax at the median

Yukon sets its brackets at the federal thresholds and its basic personal amount at the federal figure ($16,452), with a bottom rate of 6.4% up to $58,523. At Yukon’s median income of $62,000, earned as wages in 2026, federal tax would be about $5,726 and Yukon tax $2,607, leaving $49,176 after CPP and EI.

All of Yukon is a prescribed northern zone, so residents can also claim the northern residents deductions. If you lived in a prescribed northern zone, which includes all of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, for at least six consecutive months, you can deduct a basic residency amount of $11.00 a day for 2025, plus an additional $11.00 a day if you kept and lived in a dwelling there and are the only person in it claiming the basic amount; the deduction can't exceed 20% of your net income. A Yukoner living alone for the full 2025 tax year could deduct $8,030; with a net income equal to the median, the 20% ceiling, $12,400, leaves the full amount available. That deduction is worth about $1,955 in federal and Yukon tax, because it comes off the top of income at that person’s marginal rates. A trip deduction is available too: You can claim up to two non-medical trips for yourself and for each eligible family member, and any number of medical trips. The northern residents deductions page covers Form T2222 step by step.

Related pages

• Ranking one income: the income percentile calculator includes the territories, and combined incomes compare against the household income percentiles
• Northwest Territories income percentiles
• Nunavut income percentiles
• British Columbia income percentiles
• Tax brackets by province and territory
• Income by age; gender pay gap
• All income percentile pages