diff --git a/pkg/jobs/jobspb/jobs.proto b/pkg/jobs/jobspb/jobs.proto
index c4cf652782f1..e115bbea0f87 100644
--- a/pkg/jobs/jobspb/jobs.proto
+++ b/pkg/jobs/jobspb/jobs.proto
@@ -1188,8 +1188,8 @@ message RowLevelTTLDetails {
 
 message RowLevelTTLProgress {
 
-  // JobRowCount is the number of deleted rows for the entire TTL job.
-  int64 job_row_count = 1;
+  // JobDeletedRowCount is the number of rows deleted by TTL job so far.
+  int64 job_deleted_row_count = 1;
 
   // ProcessorProgresses is the progress per DistSQL processor.
   repeated RowLevelTTLProcessorProgress processor_progresses = 2 [(gogoproto.nullable)=false];
diff --git a/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_processor.go b/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_processor.go
index 70f88fde6b82..733ec1f871b3 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_processor.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_processor.go
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ func (t *ttlProcessor) work(ctx context.Context) error {
 			progress.Progress = &jobspb.Progress_FractionCompleted{
 				FractionCompleted: fractionCompleted,
 			}
-			rowLevelTTL.JobRowCount += rowsDeletedSoFar.Load()
+			rowLevelTTL.JobDeletedRowCount += rowsDeletedSoFar.Load()
 			rowLevelTTL.JobProcessedSpanCount += spansProccessedSoFar.Load()
 			rowLevelTTL.ProcessorProgresses = append(rowLevelTTL.ProcessorProgresses, jobspb.RowLevelTTLProcessorProgress{
 				ProcessorID:          processorID,
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ func (t *ttlProcessor) work(ctx context.Context) error {
 				ctx,
 				2, /* level */
 				"TTL processorRowCount updated processorID=%d sqlInstanceID=%d tableID=%d jobRowCount=%d processorRowCount=%d fractionCompleted=%.3f",
-				processorID, sqlInstanceID, tableID, rowLevelTTL.JobRowCount, rowsDeletedSoFar.Load(), fractionCompleted,
+				processorID, sqlInstanceID, tableID, rowLevelTTL.JobDeletedRowCount, rowsDeletedSoFar.Load(), fractionCompleted,
 			)
 			return nil
 		},
diff --git a/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_test.go b/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_test.go
index 4517e537546d..2a1c0e46287e 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/ttl/ttljob/ttljob_test.go
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ func (h *rowLevelTTLTestJobTestHelper) verifyExpiredRowsJobOnly(
 		var progress jobspb.Progress
 		require.NoError(t, protoutil.Unmarshal(progressBytes, &progress))
 
-		actualNumExpiredRows := progress.UnwrapDetails().(jobspb.RowLevelTTLProgress).JobRowCount
+		actualNumExpiredRows := progress.UnwrapDetails().(jobspb.RowLevelTTLProgress).JobDeletedRowCount
 		require.Equal(t, int64(expectedNumExpiredRows), actualNumExpiredRows)
 		jobCount++
 	}
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ func (h *rowLevelTTLTestJobTestHelper) verifyExpiredRows(
 		}
 		require.Equal(t, expectedJobSpanCount, rowLevelTTLProgress.JobProcessedSpanCount)
 		require.Equal(t, expectedJobSpanCount, rowLevelTTLProgress.JobTotalSpanCount)
-		require.Equal(t, expectedJobRowCount, rowLevelTTLProgress.JobRowCount)
+		require.Equal(t, expectedJobRowCount, rowLevelTTLProgress.JobDeletedRowCount)
 		jobCount++
 	}
 	require.Equal(t, 1, jobCount)