diff --git a/app/jobs/onceoff/init_category_tag_stats.rb b/app/jobs/onceoff/init_category_tag_stats.rb
index c108ca91632..43cabe3c725 100644
--- a/app/jobs/onceoff/init_category_tag_stats.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/onceoff/init_category_tag_stats.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 module Jobs
   class InitCategoryTagStats < Jobs::Onceoff
     def execute_onceoff(args)
+      CategoryTagStat.exec_sql "DELETE FROM category_tag_stats"
+
       CategoryTagStat.exec_sql <<~SQL
     INSERT INTO category_tag_stats (category_id, tag_id, topic_count)
          SELECT topics.category_id, tags.id, COUNT(topics.id)