diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3614d76..2b2d754 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Added
 
-- your excellent addition. (Hat-tip, @self 👒)
+- kubelet_node_labels worker group option allows setting --node-labels= in kubelet. (Hat-tip, @bshelton229 👒)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/data.tf b/data.tf
index c47075f..8cb312b 100644
--- a/data.tf
+++ b/data.tf
@@ -94,5 +94,6 @@ data template_file userdata {
     max_pod_count       = "${lookup(local.max_pod_per_node, lookup(var.worker_groups[count.index], "instance_type", lookup(var.workers_group_defaults, "instance_type")))}"
     pre_userdata        = "${lookup(var.worker_groups[count.index], "pre_userdata",lookup(var.workers_group_defaults, "pre_userdata"))}"
     additional_userdata = "${lookup(var.worker_groups[count.index], "additional_userdata",lookup(var.workers_group_defaults, "additional_userdata"))}"
+    kubelet_node_labels = "${lookup(var.worker_groups[count.index], "kubelet_node_labels",lookup(var.workers_group_defaults, "kubelet_node_labels"))}"
   }
 }
diff --git a/templates/userdata.sh.tpl b/templates/userdata.sh.tpl
index 024652a..d5445e0 100644
--- a/templates/userdata.sh.tpl
+++ b/templates/userdata.sh.tpl
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ CA_CERTIFICATE_FILE_PATH=$CA_CERTIFICATE_DIRECTORY/ca.crt
 mkdir -p $CA_CERTIFICATE_DIRECTORY
 echo "${cluster_auth_base64}" | base64 -d >$CA_CERTIFICATE_FILE_PATH
 
-# Authenticatoin
+# Set kubelet --node-labels if kubelet_node_labels were set
+KUBELET_NODE_LABELS=${kubelet_node_labels}
+if [[ $KUBELET_NODE_LABELS != "" ]]; then sed -i '/INTERNAL_IP/a \ \ --node-labels='"$KUBELET_NODE_LABELS"'\ \\' /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service; fi
+
+# Authentication
 INTERNAL_IP=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4)
 sed -i s,MASTER_ENDPOINT,${endpoint},g /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
 sed -i s,CLUSTER_NAME,${cluster_name},g /var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
index 4bfb415..f5dd3b9 100644
--- a/variables.tf
+++ b/variables.tf
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ variable "workers_group_defaults" {
     additional_userdata  = ""            # userdata to append to the default userdata.
     ebs_optimized        = true          # sets whether to use ebs optimization on supported types.
     public_ip            = false         # Associate a public ip address with a worker
+    kubelet_node_labels  = ""            # This string is passed directly to kubelet via --node-lables= if set. It should be comma delimited with no spaces. If left empty no --node-labels switch is added.
   }
 }