Abstract: The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of personality and emotional intelligence on the performance of private senior high school teachers in East Surabaya through motivation and job satisfaction. Results showed that personality had no effect on motivation, emotional intelligence had an effect on motivation, personality had no effect on job satisfaction, emotional intelligence had an effect on job satisfaction, personality had no effect on teacher performance, emotional intelligence had no effect on teacher performance and job satisfaction had an effect on teacher performance.