diff --git a/pkg/describe/describe.go b/pkg/describe/describe.go
index 15ed22e0e..924e745b0 100644
--- a/pkg/describe/describe.go
+++ b/pkg/describe/describe.go
@@ -871,11 +871,7 @@ func describePod(pod *corev1.Pod, events *corev1.EventList) (string, error) {
 			}
 		}
 		describeVolumes(pod.Spec.Volumes, w, "")
-		if pod.Status.QOSClass != "" {
-			w.Write(LEVEL_0, "QoS Class:\t%s\n", pod.Status.QOSClass)
-		} else {
-			w.Write(LEVEL_0, "QoS Class:\t%s\n", qos.GetPodQOS(pod))
-		}
+		w.Write(LEVEL_0, "QoS Class:\t%s\n", qos.PodQOSClass(pod))
 		printLabelsMultiline(w, "Node-Selectors", pod.Spec.NodeSelector)
 		printPodTolerationsMultiline(w, "Tolerations", pod.Spec.Tolerations)
 		describeTopologySpreadConstraints(pod.Spec.TopologySpreadConstraints, w, "")
diff --git a/pkg/util/qos/qos.go b/pkg/util/qos/qos.go
index 2270691f5..87183a095 100644
--- a/pkg/util/qos/qos.go
+++ b/pkg/util/qos/qos.go
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ func isSupportedQoSComputeResource(name core.ResourceName) bool {
 	return supportedQoSComputeResources.Has(string(name))
 }
 
+// PodQOSClass returns the QoS class of a pod persisted in the PodStatus.
+// If QOSClass is empty, it returns value of GetPodQOS() which computes pod's QoS class.
+func PodQOSClass(pod *core.Pod) core.PodQOSClass {
+	if pod.Status.QOSClass != "" {
+		return pod.Status.QOSClass
+	}
+	return GetPodQOS(pod)
+}
+
 // GetPodQOS returns the QoS class of a pod.
 // A pod is besteffort if none of its containers have specified any requests or limits.
 // A pod is guaranteed only when requests and limits are specified for all the containers and they are equal.