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Abstract

This study examined the relationship between teachers’ incentive and teachers’ job ‎performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Taraba State, Nigeria. One purpose, two research ‎questions and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Two ‎research instruments were used to collect relevant data from the subjects, Teachers’ ‎incentive Questionnaire (TIQ) and Teachers’ job satisfaction questionnaire (TSQ). The ‎population of the study is 3,093 teachers. A sample of the study was 354 participants.The‎data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation and Pearson product moment ‎correlation was used to analyze the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. There is a ‎statistical significance and strong relationship between incentives and teachers job ‎satisfaction in Senior Secondary Schools in Taraba State, Nigeria.  (r706 = 0.72, p < 0.05).‎The finding of this study also established that teachers’ incentive is low in Senior Secondary ‎Schools in  Taraba state, Nigeria with a grand mean score  (2.51).‎ Recommendations: The taraba state government and school management should provide ‎motivational incentives such as free medical care, free accommodation, transport allowances, ‎rent allowances, and responsibilities allowances‎.