diff --git a/slurm_gpustat/slurm_gpustat.py b/slurm_gpustat/slurm_gpustat.py
index f3566a092313bb0d782cee65a57b023bf0758c91..7d1025727ae5739de1090dddaa15226e8306190f 100644
--- a/slurm_gpustat/slurm_gpustat.py
+++ b/slurm_gpustat/slurm_gpustat.py
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ def gpu_usage_grouped_by_user(resources: dict, partition: Optional[str] = None)
     if slurm_version.startswith("17"):
         resource_flag = "gres"
     else:
-        resource_flag = "tres-per-node"
+        resource_flag = "tres-per-job"
     cmd = f"squeue -O {resource_flag}:100,nodelist:100,username:100,jobid:100 --noheader"
     if partition:
         cmd += f" --partition={partition}"