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Job satisfaction is one of the most broadly researched topics in the area of organizational behaviour and human recourse management. Satisfied faculty members are likely to be more productive and committed to their job. Due to globalization of higher education sector there is a lot of migration of faculty members towards good opportunities, overall growth and satisfied job. Higher education sector is more teaching centric service, which is advancing rapidly in recent years. Ensuring faculty member�s job satisfaction is important to retain the faculty members and to deliver lecture effectively to the students to learn a lot. This paper presents review of past literature of job satisfaction among agricultural faculty members. The purpose of the review is to identify gaps and explore different factors affecting job satisfaction. On the basis of previous literature review, it has been found that apart from gender differences and performance, age-group, married and unmarried, family background and work output and social identity other motivational factors such as recognition, working conditions, achievement, opportunities for growth and development where positively correlated with job satisfaction. The researcher also found that job satisfaction of faculty members is very critical aspect for all the agricultural universities and it affects performance of faculty members and quality of education in all the agricultural universities. Thus this area of job satisfaction among faculty members is a well-researched and well discussed topic all over the world.