diff --git a/packages/kokkos/algorithms/src/Kokkos_Sort.hpp b/packages/kokkos/algorithms/src/Kokkos_Sort.hpp
index 888476045b8e..21e9ec64bbdc 100644
--- a/packages/kokkos/algorithms/src/Kokkos_Sort.hpp
+++ b/packages/kokkos/algorithms/src/Kokkos_Sort.hpp
@@ -362,8 +362,10 @@ class BinSort {
 
   KOKKOS_INLINE_FUNCTION
   void operator() (const bin_sort_bins_tag& tag, const int&i )  const {
+    auto bin_size = bin_count_const(i);
+    if (bin_size <= 1) return;
+    int upper_bound = bin_offsets(i)+bin_size;
     bool sorted = false;
-    int upper_bound = bin_offsets(i)+bin_count_const(i);
     while(!sorted) {
       sorted = true;
       int old_idx = sort_order(bin_offsets(i));