diff --git a/src/classes/queue-getters.ts b/src/classes/queue-getters.ts
index ba3690e89a..c910f6028c 100644
--- a/src/classes/queue-getters.ts
+++ b/src/classes/queue-getters.ts
@@ -103,13 +103,14 @@ export class QueueGetters<
 
   /**
    * Returns the time to live for a rate limited key in milliseconds.
+   * @param maxJobs - max jobs to be considered in rate limit state. If not passed
+   * it will return the remaining ttl without considering if max jobs is excedeed.
    * @returns -2 if the key does not exist.
    * -1 if the key exists but has no associated expire.
    * @see {@link https://redis.io/commands/pttl/}
    */
-  async getRateLimitTtl(): Promise<number> {
-    const client = await this.client;
-    return client.pttl(this.keys.limiter);
+  async getRateLimitTtl(maxJobs?: number): Promise<number> {
+    return this.scripts.getRateLimitTtl(maxJobs);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ export class QueueGetters<
   /**
    * Get current job state.
    *
+   * @param jobId - job identifier.
    * @returns Returns one of these values:
    * 'completed', 'failed', 'delayed', 'active', 'waiting', 'waiting-children', 'unknown'.
    */
diff --git a/src/classes/scripts.ts b/src/classes/scripts.ts
index 43c776ad5e..b0fd95f8b2 100644
--- a/src/classes/scripts.ts
+++ b/src/classes/scripts.ts
@@ -933,6 +933,19 @@ export class Scripts {
     }
   }
 
+  getRateLimitTtlArgs(maxJobs?: number): (string | number)[] {
+    const keys: (string | number)[] = [this.queue.keys.limiter];
+
+    return keys.concat([maxJobs ?? '0']);
+  }
+
+  async getRateLimitTtl(maxJobs?: number): Promise<number> {
+    const client = await this.queue.client;
+
+    const args = this.getRateLimitTtlArgs(maxJobs);
+    return (<any>client).getRateLimitTtl(args);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Remove jobs in a specific state.
    *
diff --git a/src/commands/getRateLimitTtl-1.lua b/src/commands/getRateLimitTtl-1.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..afcf794ae2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/commands/getRateLimitTtl-1.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--[[
+  Get rate limit ttl
+
+    Input:
+      KEYS[1] 'limiter'
+
+      ARGV[1] maxJobs
+]]
+
+local rcall = redis.call
+
+-- Includes
+--- @include "includes/getRateLimitTTL"
+
+local rateLimiterKey = KEYS[1]
+if ARGV[1] ~= "0" then
+  return getRateLimitTTL(tonumber(ARGV[1]), rateLimiterKey)
+else
+  return rcall("PTTL", rateLimiterKey)
+end
diff --git a/tests/test_rate_limiter.ts b/tests/test_rate_limiter.ts
index 33914ca922..bb25a9d53c 100644
--- a/tests/test_rate_limiter.ts
+++ b/tests/test_rate_limiter.ts
@@ -486,6 +486,128 @@ describe('Rate Limiter', function () {
       });
     });
 
+    describe('when passing maxJobs when getting rate limit ttl', () => {
+      describe('when rate limit counter is lower than maxJobs', () => {
+        it('should returns 0', async function () {
+          this.timeout(4000);
+
+          const numJobs = 1;
+          const duration = 100;
+
+          const ttl = await queue.getRateLimitTtl();
+          expect(ttl).to.be.equal(-2);
+
+          const worker = new Worker(
+            queueName,
+            async job => {
+              if (job.attemptsStarted === 1) {
+                delay(50);
+                const currentTtl = await queue.getRateLimitTtl(2);
+                expect(currentTtl).to.be.equal(0);
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              connection,
+              prefix,
+              maxStalledCount: 0,
+              limiter: {
+                max: 2,
+                duration,
+              },
+            },
+          );
+
+          const result = new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+            queueEvents.on(
+              'completed',
+              // after every job has been completed
+              after(numJobs, async () => {
+                try {
+                  resolve();
+                } catch (err) {
+                  reject(err);
+                }
+              }),
+            );
+
+            queueEvents.on('failed', async err => {
+              await worker.close();
+              reject(err);
+            });
+          });
+
+          const jobs = Array.from(Array(numJobs).keys()).map(() => ({
+            name: 'rate test',
+            data: {},
+          }));
+          await queue.addBulk(jobs);
+
+          await result;
+          await worker.close();
+        });
+      });
+
+      describe('when rate limit counter is greater than maxJobs', () => {
+        it('should returns at least rate limit duration', async function () {
+          this.timeout(4000);
+
+          const numJobs = 10;
+          const duration = 100;
+
+          const ttl = await queue.getRateLimitTtl();
+          expect(ttl).to.be.equal(-2);
+
+          const worker = new Worker(
+            queueName,
+            async job => {
+              if (job.attemptsStarted === 1) {
+                delay(50);
+                const currentTtl = await queue.getRateLimitTtl(1);
+                expect(currentTtl).to.be.lessThanOrEqual(duration);
+              }
+            },
+            {
+              connection,
+              prefix,
+              maxStalledCount: 0,
+              limiter: {
+                max: 1,
+                duration,
+              },
+            },
+          );
+
+          const result = new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+            queueEvents.on(
+              'completed',
+              // after every job has been completed
+              after(numJobs, async () => {
+                try {
+                  resolve();
+                } catch (err) {
+                  reject(err);
+                }
+              }),
+            );
+
+            queueEvents.on('failed', async err => {
+              await worker.close();
+              reject(err);
+            });
+          });
+
+          const jobs = Array.from(Array(numJobs).keys()).map(() => ({
+            name: 'rate test',
+            data: {},
+          }));
+          await queue.addBulk(jobs);
+
+          await result;
+          await worker.close();
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
     describe('when reaching max attempts and we want to move the job to failed', () => {
       it('should throw Unrecoverable error', async function () {
         const dynamicLimit = 550;