diff --git a/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialect.java b/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialect.java
index c51ea0e2ac..32084eda5d 100644
--- a/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialect.java
+++ b/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialect.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 package com.yahoo.elide.core.filter.dialect;
 
 import static com.yahoo.elide.core.EntityDictionary.REGULAR_ID_NAME;
+import static com.yahoo.elide.utils.TypeHelper.isPrimitiveNumberType;
 
 import com.yahoo.elide.core.EntityDictionary;
 import com.yahoo.elide.core.Path;
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ public FilterExpression visit(ComparisonNode node, Class entityType) {
             //Coerce arguments to their correct types
             List<Object> values = arguments.stream()
                     .map(argument ->
-                            Number.class.isAssignableFrom(relationshipType)
+                            isPrimitiveNumberType(relationshipType) || Number.class.isAssignableFrom(relationshipType)
                                     ? argument.replace("*", "") //Support filtering on number types
                                     : argument
                     )
diff --git a/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/utils/TypeHelper.java b/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/utils/TypeHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..478fa0f334
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elide-core/src/main/java/com/yahoo/elide/utils/TypeHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2019, Oath Inc.
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * See LICENSE file in project root for terms.
+ */
+
+package com.yahoo.elide.utils;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * Utilities for checking classes and primitive types.
+ */
+public class TypeHelper {
+    private static final Set<Class<?>> PRIMITIVE_NUMBER_TYPES = Sets
+            .newHashSet(short.class, int.class, long.class, float.class, double.class);
+
+    /**
+     * Determine whether a type is primitive number type
+     *
+     * @param type type to check
+     * @return True is the type is primitive number type
+     */
+    public static boolean isPrimitiveNumberType(Class<?> type) {
+        return PRIMITIVE_NUMBER_TYPES.contains(type);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/elide-core/src/test/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialectTest.java b/elide-core/src/test/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialectTest.java
index 859fa2b7d2..b7643d73c1 100644
--- a/elide-core/src/test/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialectTest.java
+++ b/elide-core/src/test/java/com/yahoo/elide/core/filter/dialect/RSQLFilterDialectTest.java
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import example.Author;
 import example.Book;
 import example.Job;
+import example.PrimitiveId;
 import example.StringId;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ public static void init() {
         dictionary.bindEntity(Book.class);
         dictionary.bindEntity(StringId.class);
         dictionary.bindEntity(Job.class);
+        dictionary.bindEntity(PrimitiveId.class);
         dialect = new RSQLFilterDialect(dictionary);
     }
 
@@ -291,4 +293,20 @@ public void testFilterOnCustomizedStringIdField() throws ParseException {
 
         assertEquals("stringId.surrogateKey INFIX_CASE_INSENSITIVE [identifier]", expression.toString());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testInfixFilterOnPrimitiveIdField() throws ParseException {
+        MultivaluedMap<String, String> queryParams = new MultivaluedHashMap<>();
+
+        queryParams.add(
+                "filter",
+                "id==*1*"
+        );
+
+        FilterExpression expression = dialect.parseGlobalExpression("/primitiveTypeId", queryParams);
+
+        assertEquals(expression.toString(),
+                "primitiveId.primitiveId INFIX_CASE_INSENSITIVE [1]"
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/elide-core/src/test/java/example/PrimitiveId.java b/elide-core/src/test/java/example/PrimitiveId.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8a0a1c19d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elide-core/src/test/java/example/PrimitiveId.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2015, Yahoo Inc.
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * See LICENSE file in project root for terms.
+ */
+package example;
+
+import com.yahoo.elide.annotation.Include;
+import lombok.Data;
+
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+
+
+@Include(rootLevel = true, type = "primitiveTypeId")
+@Entity
+@Data
+public class PrimitiveId {
+
+    @Id
+    private long primitiveId;
+}