diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/replication/VerifyReplicationRecompareRunnable.java b/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/replication/VerifyReplicationRecompareRunnable.java
index 47f5e606b846..713685b5f4d1 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/replication/VerifyReplicationRecompareRunnable.java
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/replication/VerifyReplicationRecompareRunnable.java
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public void run() {
     get.setCacheBlocks(tableScan.getCacheBlocks());
     get.setFilter(tableScan.getFilter());
 
-    int sleepMs = sleepMsBeforeReCompare;
+    long sleepMs = sleepMsBeforeReCompare;
     int tries = 0;
 
     while (++tries <= reCompareTries) {
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ public void run() {
         }
       }
 
-      sleepMs = sleepMs * (2 ^ reCompareBackoffExponent);
+      sleepMs = (long) (sleepMs * Math.pow(2, reCompareBackoffExponent));
     }
 
     LOG.error("{}, rowkey={}{}{}", originalCounter, delimiter, Bytes.toStringBinary(row),