Back ground: nursing is one of the stressful jobs in health sector. Job satisfaction is an essential elementrnfor the maintenance of the workforce of any organization. However, developments of coping strategiesrndemand a clear understanding of workplace variables that either motivates nurses to remain employed orrnlead them to leave their current jobs. However, there is a scare of data about this in Ethiopia spatial in thernstudy area.rnObjective: - The aim of the study was to assess factors influencing job satisfaction and intention to leavernamong nurses in governmental health facilities in Bahir Dar administrative city, North West Ethiopia,rn2016.rnMethods: - An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted among nurses working inrngovernmental health facilities in Bahir Dar with systematic random sampling technique to fulfill the mainrnobjective of this study. Data was collected by using self-administered structured questionnaire and enteredrninto Epi data version 3.1 and then exported, cleaned & analyzed using Statistical Package for SocialrnScience (SPSS) version 21. And also descriptive analysis frequency and percentile were used to presentrnresults. To determine association between nominal variables such as socio-demographic variables andrnnursesâ€˜ level of satisfaction bivariate and multiple logistic regression were computed.rnResult: - nurses overall level job satisfaction and intention to leave the job were 43.6% and 60.9%rnrespectively. The regression analysis showed that achievement, advancement, recognition at work, workingrnsecurity, working condition, andrnorganization policyrnwere significantly associated with the overallrnsatisfaction and intention to leave (p