diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index e2227fa0842..b49047c501c 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ include tests/integration/tmp/_README
 include tests/unit/templates/files/*
 recursive-include doc *
 include conf/*
+recursive-include salt *.jinja
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b22d3ef7c98..e38b317eb8f 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ setup(
                 'salt.states',
                 'salt.utils',
                 ],
+      package_data = {
+          '': ['*.jinja'],
+      },
       scripts=['scripts/salt-master',
                'scripts/salt-minion',
                'scripts/salt-syndic',