Background: The current condition of the spread of global infectious diseases requires an institution to be more effective in managing employee human resources. The continuity of port health development carried out by the state can only be maintained if the quality of human resources receives serious attention from the government. Human resources are the most important driving factor of the organization's wheels, because employees play an active role in the organization as planners, actors and determinants of the realization of organizational goals.

Objective: To determine the correlation between job satisfaction and employee performance.

Method: Quantitative research with cross sectional design. The research sample amounted to 31 employee with the sample selection technique was saturated sampling. The research instrument used a questionnaire with a Likert scale. The instrument has been tested for validity and reliability. Data analysis used the T test.

Results: Employee performance has a good contribution, the ability to provide ideas and innovation in completing work. While the employee integrity indicator is in the low category. Overall, the average employee performance value shows variation in employee performance. For employee job satisfaction, the salary, compensation and promotion variables are in the good category. While the level of expertise and employee job elements are in the low category. The T test results were 2.385 > T table (2.045).

Conclusion: There is a significant and positive relationship between job satisfaction and employee performance (0.508).