Abstract: Objective: To explore the relationship between nurses' perceived benefits and their intent to stay in order to provide evidence and strategies for maintaining nurses' intent to stay and managing the stability of nursing team. Methods:We investigated 292 clinical nurses by using designed questionnaire with perceived benefits and intent to stay scales. The data were gathered and analyzed statistically. Results: The study showed that nurses' perceived benefits and intent to stay were at the median level in the scales; the perceived benefits scale was statistically positively correlated to intent to stay scale (P<0.05). Among its three dimensions, occupational benefits, occupational value were the main factors influencing the nurses' intent to stay (P<0.05). Conclusion: The nurses' perception of professional benefits has significantly positive effect on their intent to stay so that an improvement of nurses' perceived professional benefits should be helpful to nurse retention.The study suggests that hospital managers should pay great attention on the positive role of nurses' perceived benefits. The following strategies could be useful to increase nurse retention and nursing team stability: to strengthen nurses perceived evaluation intervention, to orientate and adjust nurses' work goals, and to care about their feelings and understandings of professional benefits.