diff --git a/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule.go b/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule.go
index f8a102177c..c289694fa3 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule.go
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func resourcePagerDutySchedule() *schema.Resource {
 				Optional: true,
 				Default:  "Managed by Terraform",
 			},
-			"schedule_layer": &schema.Schema{
+			"layer": &schema.Schema{
 				Type:     schema.TypeList,
 				Required: true,
 				ForceNew: true,
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ func resourcePagerDutySchedule() *schema.Resource {
 }
 
 func buildScheduleStruct(d *schema.ResourceData) (*pagerduty.Schedule, error) {
-	scheduleLayers := d.Get("schedule_layer").([]interface{})
+	scheduleLayers := d.Get("layer").([]interface{})
 
 	schedule := pagerduty.Schedule{
 		Name:           d.Get("name").(string),
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ func resourcePagerDutyScheduleRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) err
 	d.Set("time_zone", s.TimeZone)
 	d.Set("description", s.Description)
 
-	if err := d.Set("schedule_layer", flattenLayers(s.ScheduleLayers)); err != nil {
+	if err := d.Set("layer", flattenLayers(s.ScheduleLayers)); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
diff --git a/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule_test.go b/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule_test.go
index 573eb7743b..0bdcb3358f 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule_test.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/pagerduty/resource_pagerduty_schedule_test.go
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ func TestAccPagerDutySchedule_Basic(t *testing.T) {
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
 						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "time_zone", "Europe/Berlin"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.#", "1"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.#", "1"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.0.name", "foo"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.0.name", "foo"),
 				),
 			},
 			resource.TestStep{
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ func TestAccPagerDutySchedule_Basic(t *testing.T) {
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
 						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "time_zone", "America/New_York"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.#", "1"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.#", "1"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.0.name", "foo"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.0.name", "foo"),
 				),
 			},
 		},
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ func TestAccPagerDutySchedule_Multi(t *testing.T) {
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
 						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "time_zone", "America/New_York"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.#", "3"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.#", "3"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.0.name", "foo"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.0.name", "foo"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.1.name", "bar"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.1.name", "bar"),
 					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
-						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "schedule_layer.2.name", "foobar"),
+						"pagerduty_schedule.foo", "layer.2.name", "foobar"),
 				),
 			},
 		},
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
   time_zone   = "Europe/Berlin"
   description = "foo"
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "foo"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
 
   time_zone = "America/New_York"
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "foo"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
   time_zone   = "America/New_York"
   description = "foo"
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "foo"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
     }
   }
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "bar"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
     }
   }
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "foobar"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
diff --git a/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/d/on_call.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/d/on_call.html.markdown
index 1f3435ed53..43fe48b0f3 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/d/on_call.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/d/on_call.html.markdown
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
   name      = "Daily Engineering Rotation"
   time_zone = "America/New_York"
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "Night Shift"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
diff --git a/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/r/schedule.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/r/schedule.html.markdown
index f8a2d145e3..2567492fc9 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/r/schedule.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/providers/pagerduty/r/schedule.html.markdown
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ resource "pagerduty_schedule" "foo" {
   name      = "Daily Engineering Rotation"
   time_zone = "America/New_York"
 
-  schedule_layer {
+  layer {
     name                         = "Night Shift"
     start                        = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
     rotation_virtual_start       = "2015-11-06T20:00:00-05:00"
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ The following arguments are supported:
 * `name` - (Optional) The name of the escalation policy.
 * `time_zone` - (Required) The time zone of the schedule (e.g Europe/Berlin).
 * `description` - (Optional) The description of the schedule
-* `schedule_layer` - (Required) A schedule layer block. Schedule layers documented below.
+* `layer` - (Required) A schedule layer block. Schedule layers documented below.
 
 
-Schedule layers (`schedule_layer`) supports the following:
+Schedule layers (`layer`) supports the following:
 
 * `name` - (Optional) The name of the schedule layer.
 * `start` - (Required) The start time of the schedule layer.