diff --git a/sqlx-core/src/postgres/types/bigdecimal.rs b/sqlx-core/src/postgres/types/bigdecimal.rs
index 54cbf9e320..f7958bab17 100644
--- a/sqlx-core/src/postgres/types/bigdecimal.rs
+++ b/sqlx-core/src/postgres/types/bigdecimal.rs
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ impl TryFrom<&'_ BigDecimal> for PgNumeric {
                 digits.push(base_10_to_10000(first));
             }
         } else if offset != 0 {
-            digits.push(base_10_to_10000(&base_10) * 10i16.pow(3 - base_10.len() as u32));
+            digits.push(base_10_to_10000(&base_10) * 10i16.pow((offset - base_10.len()) as u32));
         }
 
         if let Some(rest) = base_10.get(offset..) {
diff --git a/tests/postgres/types.rs b/tests/postgres/types.rs
index 7b39de8596..0b58421448 100644
--- a/tests/postgres/types.rs
+++ b/tests/postgres/types.rs
@@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ test_type!(bigdecimal<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>(Postgres,
     "0.01234567::numeric" == "0.01234567".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
     "0.012345678::numeric" == "0.012345678".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
     "0.0123456789::numeric" == "0.0123456789".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
+    "0.002::numeric" == "0.002".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
+    "0.0002::numeric" == "0.0002".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
+    "0.00002::numeric" == "0.00002".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
+    "0.000002::numeric" == "0.000002".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
+    "0.0000002::numeric" == "0.0000002".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
+    "0.00000002::numeric" == "0.00000002".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
     "12.34::numeric" == "12.34".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
     "12345.6789::numeric" == "12345.6789".parse::<sqlx::types::BigDecimal>().unwrap(),
 ));