diff --git a/packages/loot-core/default-filesystem.mjs b/packages/loot-core/default-filesystem.mjs
index 0690f25268..beea903f12 100644
--- a/packages/loot-core/default-filesystem.mjs
+++ b/packages/loot-core/default-filesystem.mjs
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ export const sqlWasmPath =
   require.resolve('@jlongster/sql.js/dist/sql-wasm.wasm');
 
 function migrationFileNames() {
+  // Sort so the embedded `dataFiles` order (and thus the worker bundle hash) is
+  // stable regardless of the filesystem's `readdirSync` ordering.
   return fs
     .readdirSync(migrationsDir)
-    .filter(name => name.endsWith('.sql') || name.endsWith('.js'));
+    .filter(name => name.endsWith('.sql') || name.endsWith('.js'))
+    .sort((a, b) => (a < b ? -1 : a > b ? 1 : 0));
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/loot-core/src/server/migrate/embedded-assets.test.ts b/packages/loot-core/src/server/migrate/embedded-assets.test.ts
index abef641b24..207c20b513 100644
--- a/packages/loot-core/src/server/migrate/embedded-assets.test.ts
+++ b/packages/loot-core/src/server/migrate/embedded-assets.test.ts
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ describe('embedded default filesystem', () => {
   });
 
   it('embeds the default database and sql.js wasm byte-for-byte', () => {
-    const { dataFiles, wasmBase64 } = collectEmbeddedAssets();
+    const { dataFiles, index, wasmBase64 } = collectEmbeddedAssets();
 
     const embeddedDb = Buffer.from(dataFiles['default-db.sqlite'], 'base64');
     expect(embeddedDb.equals(fs.readFileSync(defaultDbPath))).toBe(true);
+    expect(index.split('\n').filter(Boolean)).toContain('default-db.sqlite');
 
     const embeddedWasm = Buffer.from(wasmBase64, 'base64');
     expect(embeddedWasm.equals(fs.readFileSync(sqlWasmPath))).toBe(true);