diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
index f80b65bd6..60ebbd06d 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
@@ -951,9 +951,9 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin):
     ) -> _DataFrameGroupByNonScalar: ...
     def pivot(
         self,
-        index=...,
-        columns=...,
-        values=...,
+        index: IndexLabel = ...,
+        columns: IndexLabel = ...,
+        values: IndexLabel = ...,
     ) -> DataFrame: ...
     def pivot_table(
         self,
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/reshape/pivot.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/reshape/pivot.pyi
index dc29d5c61..bd32b8abe 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/reshape/pivot.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/reshape/pivot.pyi
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ def pivot_table(
 ) -> DataFrame: ...
 def pivot(
     data: DataFrame,
-    index: str | None = ...,
-    columns: str | None = ...,
-    values: IndexLabel | None = ...,
+    index: IndexLabel = ...,
+    columns: IndexLabel = ...,
+    values: IndexLabel = ...,
 ) -> DataFrame: ...
 def crosstab(
     index: Sequence | Series,
diff --git a/tests/test_frame.py b/tests/test_frame.py
index 8aed66021..f8074ba90 100644
--- a/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -543,9 +543,26 @@ def test_types_pivot() -> None:
             "col4": [100, 102, 500, 600],
         }
     )
-    df.pivot(index="col1", columns="col3", values="col2")
-    df.pivot(index="col1", columns="col3")
-    df.pivot(index="col1", columns="col3", values=["col2", "col4"])
+    check(
+        assert_type(
+            df.pivot(index="col1", columns="col3", values="col2"), pd.DataFrame
+        ),
+        pd.DataFrame,
+    )
+    check(
+        assert_type(df.pivot(index="col1", columns="col3"), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame
+    )
+    check(
+        assert_type(
+            df.pivot(index="col1", columns="col3", values=["col2", "col4"]),
+            pd.DataFrame,
+        ),
+        pd.DataFrame,
+    )
+    check(assert_type(df.pivot(columns="col3"), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)
+    check(
+        assert_type(df.pivot(columns="col3", values="col2"), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame
+    )
 
 
 def test_types_groupby() -> None: