Emotional intelligence is of great importance for everyone. Understanding your own emotions, emotions of others and successful use and control of emotions, depends on the level of development of a person's emotional intelligence. Emotionally intelligent people are better at establishing and maintaining good relationships with people, making decisions, taking responsibility and overcoming hardships. Individuals with higher levels of emotional intelligence will deal with problematic situations better, they will search for a solution of the problem, banish negative thoughts, and take a positive stance. Stress has become an omnipresent phenomenon and most people today are exposed to the harmful effects of stress. Employees almost every day experience stress at work, and it is necessary for organizations to pay more attention to prevention and control of the work related stress, and the workers have to stop the harmful consequences of stress by working on themselves. In order to analyze the relationship between emotional intelligence and perceived stress level an empirical study was conducted on the sample of 104 individuals. A questionnaire survey consisted of two parts. First part determined the level of emotional intelligence, and the second part determined the perceived stress levels. According to the results obtained we can determine that there is no significant difference in stress perception between individuals with low, medium or high levels of emotional intelligence. The research results also point to the importance and the necessity of preventing stress at work due to high presence of perceived stress among sampled employees.