diff --git a/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion.md b/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion.md
index ac90c3e4df..7661a57900 100644
--- a/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion.md
+++ b/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion.md
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ A job can be scaled up using the `kubectl scale` command.  For example, the foll
 command sets `.spec.parallelism` of a job called `myjob` to 10:
 
 ```shell
-$ kubectl scale  --replicas=$N jobs/myjob
+$ kubectl scale  --replicas=10 jobs/myjob
 job "myjob" scaled
 ```