diff --git a/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/src/Listeners/EventHubsTargetScaler.cs b/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/src/Listeners/EventHubsTargetScaler.cs
index 008a09f5c46c1..8bccdf773591a 100644
--- a/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/src/Listeners/EventHubsTargetScaler.cs
+++ b/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/src/Listeners/EventHubsTargetScaler.cs
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ internal static TargetScalerResult ThrottleScaleDownIfNecessaryInternal(TargetSc
         internal TargetScalerResult GetScaleResultInternal(TargetScalerContext context, long eventCount, int partitionCount)
         {
             int desiredConcurrency = GetDesiredConcurrencyInternal(context);
-            int desiredWorkerCount = (int)Math.Ceiling(eventCount / (decimal)desiredConcurrency);
+            long desiredWorkerCount = (long)Math.Ceiling(eventCount / (decimal)desiredConcurrency);
             int[] sortedValidWorkerCounts = GetSortedValidWorkerCountsForPartitionCount(partitionCount);
             int validatedTargetWorkerCount = GetValidWorkerCount(desiredWorkerCount, sortedValidWorkerCounts);
 
@@ -163,9 +163,15 @@ internal static int[] GetSortedValidWorkerCountsForPartitionCount(int partitionC
         /// <param name="workerCount">The value that we want to find in the sortedValues list (if it exists), or the next largest element.</param>
         /// <param name="sortedValidWorkerCountList">The list of valid worker counts. This must be sorted.</param>
         /// <returns></returns>
-        internal static int GetValidWorkerCount(int workerCount, int[] sortedValidWorkerCountList)
+        internal static int GetValidWorkerCount(long workerCount, int[] sortedValidWorkerCountList)
         {
-            int i = Array.BinarySearch(sortedValidWorkerCountList, workerCount);
+            // Handling cases where workerCount exceeds int.MaxInt
+            if (workerCount > int.MaxValue)
+            {
+                return sortedValidWorkerCountList.Last();
+            }
+
+            int i = Array.BinarySearch(sortedValidWorkerCountList, (int)workerCount);
             if (i >= 0)
             {
                 return sortedValidWorkerCountList[i];
diff --git a/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/tests/EventHubsTargetScalerTests.cs b/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/tests/EventHubsTargetScalerTests.cs
index fa7bc86e0fc0a..a8a3c82c6eada 100644
--- a/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/tests/EventHubsTargetScalerTests.cs
+++ b/sdk/eventhub/Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.EventHubs/tests/EventHubsTargetScalerTests.cs
@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ public void TestGetSortedValidWorkerCountsForPartitionCount(int partitionCount,
         [TestCase(21, new[] { 1, 4, 10, 20 }, 20)]
         [TestCase(0, new[] { 1, 4, 10, 20 }, 1)]
         [TestCase(10, new[] { 1, 4, 10, 20 }, 10)]
-        public void GetSortedValidWorkerCountsForPartitionCount_ReturnsExpected(int workerCount, int[] sortedWorkerCountList, int expectedValidWorkerCount)
+        [TestCase(2147483650, new[] { 1, 4, 10, 20 }, 20)] // workerCount exceeds MaxInt
+        [TestCase(2147483650, new[] { 1 }, 1)]
+        public void GetSortedValidWorkerCountsForPartitionCount_ReturnsExpected(long workerCount, int[] sortedWorkerCountList, int expectedValidWorkerCount)
         {
             int actualValidWorkerCount = EventHubsTargetScaler.GetValidWorkerCount(workerCount, sortedWorkerCountList);
             Assert.AreEqual(expectedValidWorkerCount, actualValidWorkerCount);