diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 85fbd48..994a9f7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ tqdm==4.42.1
 requests==2.22.0
 requests-futures==1.0.0
 seaborn==0.10.0
-pip==20.0.2
+pip==21.1
 
 # external requirements (cookiecutter data science)
 # click