diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20240327-210249.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20240327-210249.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..04a5c5e38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20240327-210249.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: Fixes
+body: Add `pandas` extra for `google-cloud-bigquery` to pick up missing `pyarrow`
+  dependency
+time: 2024-03-27T21:02:49.619691-04:00
+custom:
+  Author: mikealfare
+  Issue: "1152"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3e714c74d..24d873689 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ def _dbt_bigquery_version() -> str:
     install_requires=[
         "dbt-common>=0.1.0a1,<2.0",
         "dbt-adapters>=0.1.0a1,<2.0",
-        "google-cloud-bigquery~=3.0",
+        # 3.20 introduced pyarrow>=3.0 under the `pandas` extra
+        "google-cloud-bigquery[pandas]>=3.0,<4.0",
         "google-cloud-storage~=2.4",
         "google-cloud-dataproc~=5.0",
         # ----