diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index 9c2379a8c..9b305fc76 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -1185,6 +1185,8 @@ main() {
     echo "Checking for necessary user migrations."
     so-user migrate
 
+    systemctl_func "start" "$cron_service_name"
+
     if [[ -n $lsl_msg ]]; then
       case $lsl_msg in
         'distributed')