diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_candidate.yml b/.github/workflows/release_candidate.yml
index e4849beeeb95..57620831bc5c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_candidate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_candidate.yml
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ on:
     tags:
       - "apache-arrow-*-rc*"
     paths:
-      - ".github/workflows/release_candidate.sh"
+      - ".github/workflows/release_candidate.yml"
       - "dev/release/utils-create-release-tarball.sh"
       - "dev/release/utils-generate-checksum.sh"
   pull_request:
     paths:
-      - ".github/workflows/release_candidate.sh"
+      - ".github/workflows/release_candidate.yml"
       - "dev/release/utils-create-release-tarball.sh"
       - "dev/release/utils-generate-checksum.sh"