Teaching is a rigorous and difficult career. A teacher's job is to plan, organize, deliver, and evaluate teaching helps students learn. Teachers working at various levels of education face a variety of obstacles due to the ever-increasing burden in the educational system, number of students in a class, student diversity, etc They undergo lots of Occupational Stress. Emotional intelligence (EI) is among the variables that appear to be associated with stress. Thus, this study aims to investigate the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Occupational Stress The study was conducted on 32 Female and 28 MaleHigh School Teachers of Bangalore the data was gathered through questionnaires of Emotional Intelligence by Upinder Dhar. And the Occupational Stress Index by Srivastav and Singh was used to measure occupational stress., Data being analysed by SPSS softwareusing descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient. The result showed that there was a negative relationship between the emotional intelligence and occupational stress of teachers.