A study sought to determine what factors influenced Ohio Cooperative Extension Service county agents to leave their jobs (particularly the factor of job performance level) as measured by supervisory rating and self-rating techniques. Additionally, the study sought to determine relationships between variables and to determine the levels of those variables as they existed in the population being studied. All 244 Ohio Cooperative Extension Service county agents under contract March 1, 1985, were surveyed via a mailed questionnaire, with additional data supplied through an investigation of their personnel files. A variety of relationships among factors were found. Overall, the study concluded that Ohio Cooperative Extension Service county agents generally had low intentions of leaving their present jobs. They experienced moderate amounts of overall job satisfaction, satisfaction with supervision and the work itself, high satisfaction with co-workers, and fairly low amounts of satisfaction with promotion and pay. They perceived themselves to be high performers, and their supervisors generally agreed. Agents tended to reward themselves intrinsically for good performance, but they did not see that the rewards given them by the organization were necessarily contingent upon their performance level. Lower performers had higher intentions of leaving the job than did higher performers, and the self-rating of job performance was more closely associated with intention to leave the job than was supervisor rating of job performance. Other predictors of intention to leave the job were overall job satisfaction, satisfaction with co-workers, and age. Recommendations were made for improving job satisfaction through feedback, promotion policies, creating cooperative teams of co-workers, and other methods. (KC)