Job Satisfaction of Public Primary School Teachers in Bangladesh: A Case Study in Sherpur District

This study aims at investigating the level of job satisfaction among the public primary school teachers of Bangladesh based on teachers’ sex, marital status, academic discipline, academic result and experience. Data have been collected randomly from 96 teachers of Sherpur District through a structured questionnaire. Among the respondents 63% is female while 37% is male. Data have been analysed by using SPSS 11.5 version. This research has revealed that the teachers who are female, the teachers who are married, the teachers who have academic result up to moderate, the teachers whose academic discipline is humanities, and also the teachers whose experience is more than five years are satisfied with their job in the domain of public primary schools in Bangladesh. In addition, it has been found that the purchasing power of public primary school teachers’ is lowering slowly but surely, and now socio economically they are in a deplorable situation compared to the previous years.