diff --git a/src/Controller/Admin/QueueController.php b/src/Controller/Admin/QueueController.php
index 71d5676a..758cf9a4 100644
--- a/src/Controller/Admin/QueueController.php
+++ b/src/Controller/Admin/QueueController.php
@@ -113,8 +113,22 @@ public function index() {
 				'failure_message IS NOT' => null,
 			])
 			->count();
-		// Pending = total pending minus running and failed (to avoid double counting)
-		$pendingJobs = max(0, $totalPending - $runningJobs - $failedJobs);
+		// Aborted jobs (retries exhausted) carry a failure_message but are
+		// terminal and already excluded from getPendingCount()/getPendingStats().
+		// Subtract only the still-retriable failures here so aborted rows are not
+		// removed twice (which would under-count, or zero out, real pending work).
+		$retriableFailedJobs = $this->QueuedJobs->find()
+			->where([
+				'completed IS' => null,
+				'failure_message IS NOT' => null,
+				'OR' => [
+					'status IS' => null,
+					'status !=' => $this->QueuedJobs::STATUS_ABORTED,
+				],
+			])
+			->count();
+		// Pending = total pending minus running and still-retriable failed (to avoid double counting)
+		$pendingJobs = max(0, $totalPending - $runningJobs - $retriableFailedJobs);
 
 		$configurations = (array)Configure::read('Queue');
 
diff --git a/src/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTable.php b/src/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTable.php
index 1a4feb04..51b29c4b 100644
--- a/src/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTable.php
+++ b/src/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTable.php
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ public function createConfig(): JobConfig {
 	 *
 	 * @return \Queue\Model\Entity\QueuedJob Saved job entity (or the existing pending entity if `unique` deduped).
 	 */
-	public function createJob(string $jobTask, array|object|null $data = null, array|JobConfig $config = []): QueuedJob {
+	public function createJob(string $jobTask, object|array|null $data = null, JobConfig|array $config = []): QueuedJob {
 		if (!$config instanceof JobConfig) {
 			$config = $this->createConfig()->fromArray($config);
 		}
@@ -844,6 +844,9 @@ public function reset(?int $id = null, bool $full = false): int {
 			'failure_message' => null,
 			'output' => null,
 			'memory' => null,
+			// Clear the terminal aborted status so a reset job counts as pending
+			// again (getPendingCount()/isQueued() exclude status = aborted).
+			'status' => null,
 		];
 		$conditions = [
 			'completed IS' => null,
@@ -1103,16 +1106,35 @@ public function getPendingStats(): SelectQuery {
 				'failure_message',
 				'memory',
 			],
-			'conditions' => [
-				'completed IS' => null,
+			'conditions' => $this->pendingConditions(),
+		];
+
+		return $this->find('all', ...$findCond);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Shared WHERE conditions for "pending" jobs: not completed, due to run, and
+	 * not terminally aborted. An aborted job keeps `completed IS NULL` but will
+	 * never run again (retries exhausted), so it must not be reported as pending.
+	 *
+	 * @return array<int|string, mixed>
+	 */
+	protected function pendingConditions(): array {
+		return [
+			'completed IS' => null,
+			[
 				'OR' => [
 					'notbefore <=' => new DateTime(),
 					'notbefore IS' => null,
 				],
 			],
+			[
+				'OR' => [
+					'status IS' => null,
+					'status !=' => static::STATUS_ABORTED,
+				],
+			],
 		];
-
-		return $this->find('all', ...$findCond);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -1125,13 +1147,7 @@ public function getPendingStats(): SelectQuery {
 	 */
 	public function getPendingCount(): int {
 		return $this->find()
-			->where([
-				'completed IS' => null,
-				'OR' => [
-					'notbefore <=' => new DateTime(),
-					'notbefore IS' => null,
-				],
-			])
+			->where($this->pendingConditions())
 			->count();
 	}
 
diff --git a/tests/TestCase/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTableTest.php b/tests/TestCase/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTableTest.php
index acbd2aa7..57412c85 100644
--- a/tests/TestCase/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTableTest.php
+++ b/tests/TestCase/Model/Table/QueuedJobsTableTest.php
@@ -874,6 +874,59 @@ public function testMarkJobAborted() {
 		$this->assertNull($reloaded->completed);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Aborted jobs keep `completed IS NULL` but are terminal, so they must not
+	 * be counted by the pending stats/count used on the admin dashboard.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function testGetPendingCountExcludesAborted() {
+		$pending = $this->QueuedJobs->newEntity([
+			'key' => 'key',
+			'job_task' => 'FooBar',
+			'reference' => 'pending-one',
+		]);
+		$this->QueuedJobs->saveOrFail($pending);
+
+		$aborted = $this->QueuedJobs->newEntity([
+			'key' => 'key',
+			'job_task' => 'FooBar',
+			'reference' => 'aborted-one',
+		]);
+		$this->QueuedJobs->saveOrFail($aborted);
+		$this->QueuedJobs->markJobAborted($aborted);
+
+		$this->assertSame(1, $this->QueuedJobs->getPendingCount());
+
+		$statsRefs = $this->QueuedJobs->getPendingStats()->all()->extract('reference')->toArray();
+		$this->assertContains('pending-one', $statsRefs);
+		$this->assertNotContains('aborted-one', $statsRefs);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Resetting an aborted job for rerun must clear its terminal status so it
+	 * counts as pending again and gets picked up.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function testResetClearsAbortedStatus() {
+		$job = $this->QueuedJobs->newEntity([
+			'key' => 'key',
+			'job_task' => 'FooBar',
+			'reference' => 'reset-me',
+			'attempts' => 3,
+		]);
+		$this->QueuedJobs->saveOrFail($job);
+		$this->QueuedJobs->markJobAborted($job);
+		$this->assertSame(0, $this->QueuedJobs->getPendingCount());
+
+		$this->QueuedJobs->reset($job->id, true);
+
+		$reloaded = $this->QueuedJobs->get($job->id);
+		$this->assertNull($reloaded->status);
+		$this->assertSame(1, $this->QueuedJobs->getPendingCount());
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @return void
 	 */