This study represents an inquiry into job satisfaction of employees working in private firms in Kuwaiti manufacturing sector. A survey was conducted to collect information on a number of issues relating to job satisfaction. The survey results were subjected to multivariate statistical analysis The technique of factor analysis was used to analyze the relationships among the interrelated variables affecting job satisfaction. The principal component method, with varimax rotation, is utilized to reduce the large number of explanatory variables to a few underlying factors. A two-group discriminant analysis was used to find out whether there are any significant demographic differences among the Kuwaiti nationals and the expatriates in their views of job satisfaction. Factor scores were used as predictive variables in the discriminant analysis.