Värska rural municipality regards the development of entrepreneurship and economy in the region as essential. A multitude of local entrepreneurs and their activeness provide the local people with work; improve the environment and living conditions, bring financial resources to the area and create the basis of profit for coordinating the work of the rural municipality.

Estonian people are generally settled and do not thoughtlessly move away from their home places. In 2000 83.2% of the local people worked in Põlva county; 76.5% of them worked in Värska rural municipality and only 4.85% worked in other counties. In Estonia 10% of people work somewhere else on average. Värska has developed into a small attraction centre where also inhabitants of neighbouring rural municipalities – Mikitamäe, Orava and Räpina – come to work. On 1 September 2007 the population of Värska rural municipality was 1,493; 66% of the population form the local workforce.

There are 164 employers registered in Värska rural municipality, including 37 companies and 127 self-employed persons (Source: Estonian Tax and Customs Board, 08/10/2007). 127 self-employed persons form 77.4% of all entrepreneurs; there are also 34 (20.7%) private limited companies and 3 (1.8%) public limited companies. The main areas of activity are tourism and recreation industry (among this health tourism, accommodation, catering and active recreation), wood-processing, production of mineral water, retail business and services. The economic importance of agricultural sector is subsidiary.