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The main objective of this study is to empirically examine the factors that determine the quitting decision of public school teachers in Bhutan. This study will examine teachers' job satisfaction and quit decisions and determine how the quit decision differs among different gender and regions. Cross-sectional data were collected through a questionnaire distributed randomly among 596 teachers in secondary public schools in Bhutan because they comprise about 70.73% of total public school teachers. This study focuses on the factors that can lead to quitting decisions by the teachers within two years. Based on descriptive analysis of raw data, and index data, and the Ordered Probit model, the result revealed that decision actors such as gender, qualification, work satisfaction, monetary rewards and support from the administration affected the teachers' quitting decision within two years more than the experience, working environment and interpersonal relation. Also, the actual rate of the teachers who were planning to leave within two years was yielded and some of the suggestions from the participants to the Ministry of Education in order to retain the experienced ones in the system, which can be helpful even for the policymakers of public and private schools, are given.