diff --git a/addons/pager/jquery.tablesorter.pager.js b/addons/pager/jquery.tablesorter.pager.js
index 06dcf33a..c0451359 100644
--- a/addons/pager/jquery.tablesorter.pager.js
+++ b/addons/pager/jquery.tablesorter.pager.js
@@ -479,7 +479,8 @@
 				p.initialized = true;
 				$(table)
 					.trigger('applyWidgets')
-					.trigger('pagerInitialized', p);
+					.trigger('pagerInitialized', p)
+					.trigger('pagerComplete', p);
 			}
 		},
 
@@ -946,7 +947,6 @@
 				$t.trigger('pagerBeforeInitialized', p);
 
 				enablePager(table, p, false);
-
 				if ( typeof(p.ajaxUrl) === 'string' ) {
 					// ajax pager; interact with database
 					p.ajax = true;
@@ -964,8 +964,11 @@
 				// pager initialized
 				if (!p.ajax) {
 					p.initialized = true;
+					moveToPage(table, p);
 					updatePageDisplay(table, p, true);
-					$(table).trigger('pagerInitialized', p);
+					$(table)
+						.trigger('pagerInitialized', p)
+						.trigger('pagerComplete', p);
 				}
 			});
 		};
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index c679dca3..2cbc0ca0 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -4833,8 +4833,11 @@ $('table').trigger( 'search', [['', '', '', '', 'orange']] ); // find orange in
 
 			<tr id="pagercomplete">
 				<td><a href="#" class="permalink">pagerComplete</a></td>
-				<td>This event fires when the pager plugin has completed its render of the table on the currently selected page. (v2.0.7).
+				<td>This event fires when the pager plugin has completed initialization (<span class="version">v2.18.1</span>), and its render of the table on the currently selected page. (v2.0.7).
 					<div class="collapsible">
+						<br>
+						<span class="label label-info">Note</span> In <span class="version">v2.18.1</span>, the "pagerComplete" event also fires off immediately after pager initialization.<br>
+						<br>
 						<pre class="prettyprint lang-js">$(function(){
 
   // initialize the sorter
diff --git a/js/widgets/widget-pager.js b/js/widgets/widget-pager.js
index 152de8d7..6c9bc4a9 100644
--- a/js/widgets/widget-pager.js
+++ b/js/widgets/widget-pager.js
@@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ tsp = ts.pager = {
 		// pager initialized
 		p.initialized = true;
 		p.isInitializing = false;
-		c.$table.trigger('pagerInitialized', c);
+		c.$table
+			.trigger('pagerInitialized', c)
+			.trigger('pagerComplete', c);
 		tsp.updatePageDisplay(table, c);
 	},