Job satisfaction is related with needs of human beings and fulfilment of needs by doing work. Job satisfaction is generated by individual opinion of how well his job satisfies his various needs. The study is this study 80 staff nurses selected through random sampling from various private and government hospitals of districts Sangrur. Job satisfaction scale (JSS) for measuring the level of job satisfaction, job satisfaction scale (2009 revised version) developed by Dr. Amar Singh and Dr. T. R. Sharma was employed. It consists of 30 statements. The test retest reliability works out to be 0.978 and validity coefficient of 0.743. The collected data is analysed through the software Spss version 24.0 using the percentage statistics, Mean Scores, SD and t-test statistics methods. Nurses working in government hospitals were found better satisfied with their job than the nurses working in private hospitals.