diff --git a/luigi/task.py b/luigi/task.py
index 3482f1bf26..a00acda719 100644
--- a/luigi/task.py
+++ b/luigi/task.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 import re
 import copy
 import functools
-from typing import Any, Dict
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 import luigi
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class MyTask(luigi.Task):
     #: Number of seconds after which to time out the run function.
     #: No timeout if set to 0.
     #: Defaults to 0 or worker-timeout value in config
-    worker_timeout = None
+    worker_timeout: Optional[int] = None
 
     #: Maximum number of tasks to run together as a batch. Infinite by default
     max_batch_size = float('inf')