diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cd14261..fb5d732 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ google-cloud-bigquery==2.34.3
 jsonschema~=2.6.0
 setuptools~=60.3.1
 pendulum
-backoff
\ No newline at end of file
+backoff==1.8.0