diff --git a/pkg/sql/executor_statement_metrics.go b/pkg/sql/executor_statement_metrics.go
index 4d7bff701ea5..334be2e314b9 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/executor_statement_metrics.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/executor_statement_metrics.go
@@ -67,7 +67,14 @@ type phaseTimes [sessionNumPhases]time.Time
 // getServiceLatency returns the time between a query being received and the end
 // of run.
 func (p *phaseTimes) getServiceLatency() time.Duration {
-	return p[plannerEndExecStmt].Sub(p[sessionQueryReceived])
+	// To have an accurate representation of how long it took to service this
+	// single query, we ignore the time between when parsing ends and planning
+	// begins. This avoids the latency being inflated in a few different cases:
+	// when there are internal transaction retries, and when multiple statements
+	// are submitted together, e.g. "SELECT 1; SELECT 2".
+	parseLatency := p[sessionEndParse].Sub(p[sessionQueryReceived])
+	planAndExecuteLatency := p[plannerEndExecStmt].Sub(p[plannerStartLogicalPlan])
+	return parseLatency + planAndExecuteLatency
 }
 
 // getRunLatency returns the time between a query execution starting and ending.