Teacher motivation plays a very vital role in the promotion of teaching and learning excellence. Normally, motivated teachers are more likely to motivate students to learn in the classroom. While teacher motivation is fundamental to teaching and learning process, most of the teacher not highly motivated. This paper was designed to examine the factors affecting teacher motivation at public secondary school in District Abbottabad. Major objectives of the study were to identify the factors responsible for teacher motivation, to investigate the impact of professional training and development status on teacher motivation and to determine the impact of socio economic status teacher motivation at public secondary schools in District Abbottabad. Adopted questionnaire has been use for data collection from sample size of 129 from the targeted population of 800 teachers. From the findings it was concluded that teachers were not satisfied with their socio economic status and professional training and development. From this article it is recommended that teachers should get proper training, should be given them respect and should be compensate according to their academic qualification and skills.