diff --git a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/RegionLoad.java b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/RegionLoad.java
index b45171e64956..d61ba86a33e3 100644
--- a/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/RegionLoad.java
+++ b/hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/RegionLoad.java
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ public List<ClusterStatusProtos.StoreSequenceId> getStoreCompleteSequenceId() {
    */
   @Deprecated
   public int getStoreUncompressedSizeMB() {
-    return (int) metrics.getUncompressedStoreFileSize().get(Size.Unit.KILOBYTE);
+    return (int) metrics.getUncompressedStoreFileSize().get(Size.Unit.MEGABYTE);
   }
 
   /** Returns the data locality of region in the regionserver. */