diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/aggregation/first/NumericFirstVectorAggregator.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/aggregation/first/NumericFirstVectorAggregator.java
index 6207b17b672b..75d4354509c5 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/aggregation/first/NumericFirstVectorAggregator.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/query/aggregation/first/NumericFirstVectorAggregator.java
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public void aggregate(ByteBuffer buf, int position, int startRow, int endRow)
     final long[] timeVector = timeSelector.getLongVector();
     final boolean[] nullTimeVector = timeSelector.getNullVector();
     final boolean[] nullValueVector = valueSelector.getNullVector();
-
+    firstTime = buf.getLong(position);
     int index;
     // Now we are iterating over the values to find the minima as the
     // timestamp expression in EARLIEST_BY has no established sorting order