diff --git a/changelog/60557.fixed b/changelog/60557.fixed
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0634bc83952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/60557.fixed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix regression pip.installed does not pass env_vars when calling pip.list
diff --git a/salt/states/pip_state.py b/salt/states/pip_state.py
index f7a0ae3f2ba..542a7f6c751 100644
--- a/salt/states/pip_state.py
+++ b/salt/states/pip_state.py
@@ -845,9 +845,11 @@ def installed(
     # No requirements case.
     # Check pre-existence of the requested packages.
     else:
-        # Attempt to pre-cache a the current pip list
+        # Attempt to pre-cache the current pip list
         try:
-            pip_list = __salt__["pip.list"](bin_env=bin_env, user=user, cwd=cwd)
+            pip_list = __salt__["pip.list"](
+                bin_env=bin_env, user=user, cwd=cwd, env_vars=env_vars
+            )
         # If we fail, then just send False, and we'll try again in the next function call
         except Exception as exc:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
             log.exception(exc)