diff --git a/stdlib/tarfile.pyi b/stdlib/tarfile.pyi
index 4ef096be330e..8620de3fc004 100644
--- a/stdlib/tarfile.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/tarfile.pyi
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class TarFile:
     fileobject: type[ExFileObject]  # undocumented
     pax_headers: Mapping[str, str] | None
     debug: int | None
-    errorlevel: int | None
+    errorlevel: int
     offset: int  # undocumented
     extraction_filter: _FilterFunction | None
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 13):