diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d06dc3f67b..403125f039 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Our versioning strategy is as follows:
     * Handle additional string error codes like ECONNRESET, ETIMEDOUT, EPROTO. Can configure more using DefaultRetryStrategy.
     * Retries has now been enabled by default with a default value of 3. It can be disabled by configuring it to 0.
     * [Retry-After] header now falls back to the default delay time when it comes out to be empty.
-    ([#1755](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1755)) ([#1759](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1759))
+    ([#1755](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1755)) ([#1759](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1759)) ([#1763](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1763))
 
 ### 🐛 Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.test.ts b/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.test.ts
index 006fc55e13..f882ddc15b 100644
--- a/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.test.ts
@@ -605,6 +605,19 @@ describe('GraphQLRequestClient', () => {
         expect(delay).to.equal(expectedDelay);
       });
 
+      it('should return delay using the value from Retry-After header without rounding off', () => {
+        const retryStrategy = new DefaultRetryStrategy();
+        const mockError = {
+          response: {
+            status: 429,
+            headers: new Map([['Retry-After', '1.5']]),
+          },
+        };
+        const delay = retryStrategy.getDelay(mockError, 3);
+        const expectedDelay = 1.5 * 1000;
+        expect(delay).to.equal(expectedDelay);
+      });
+
       it('should use custom exponential factor', () => {
         const customFactor = 3;
         const retryStrategy = new DefaultRetryStrategy({
diff --git a/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.ts b/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.ts
index a9d0149242..f3bc6f9fa2 100644
--- a/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.ts
+++ b/packages/sitecore-jss/src/graphql-request-client.ts
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export class DefaultRetryStrategy implements RetryStrategy {
       retryAfterHeader !== undefined &&
       retryAfterHeader.trim() !== ''
     ) {
-      const delaySeconds = Number.parseInt(retryAfterHeader, 10);
+      const delaySeconds = Number.parseFloat(retryAfterHeader);
       return delaySeconds * 1000;
     } else {
       return Math.pow(this.factor, attempt - 1) * 1000;