diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-connection/samples/package.json b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-connection/samples/package.json
index c55276fe361..6d404fbe209 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-connection/samples/package.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-connection/samples/package.json
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "c8": "^7.1.0",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
-    "mocha": "^7.1.0"
+    "mocha": "^8.0.0"
   }
 }