diff --git a/services/escalator/escalation.py b/services/escalator/escalation.py
index 99fe1e248c7a4b05c0b5f15b97fa17896654a707..725e1f147bfc569ce54e01e0d9acbd699742552e 100644
--- a/services/escalator/escalation.py
+++ b/services/escalator/escalation.py
@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ def escalate(alarm_id, escalation_id, escalation_delay, login="correlator", *arg
                     "Escalation limit exceeded (%s/%s). Skipping"
                     % (ae, config.escalator.tt_escalation_limit)
                 )
+                Job.retry_after(
+                    get_next_retry(),
+                    "Escalation limit exceeded (%s/%s). Skipping"
+                    % (ae, config.escalator.tt_escalation_limit),
+                )
                 return
             # Check whether consequences has escalations
             cons_escalated = sorted(alarm.iter_escalated(), key=operator.attrgetter("timestamp"))