diff --git a/awx/ui/client/features/projects/projectsList.controller.js b/awx/ui/client/features/projects/projectsList.controller.js
index e0de2a34be..c9f4ac95cf 100644
--- a/awx/ui/client/features/projects/projectsList.controller.js
+++ b/awx/ui/client/features/projects/projectsList.controller.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ function projectsListController (
 ) {
     const vm = this || {};
     const [ProjectModel] = resolvedModels;
+    let paginateQuerySet = null;
     $scope.canAdd = ProjectModel.options('actions.POST');
 
     vm.strings = strings;
@@ -75,14 +76,28 @@ function projectsListController (
 
     vm.toolbarSortValue = toolbarSortDefault;
 
+    // Temporary hack to retrieve $scope.querySet from the paginate directive.
+    // Remove this event listener once the page and page_size params
+    // are represented in the url.
+    $scope.$on('updateDataset', (event, dataset, queryset) => {
+        paginateQuerySet = queryset;
+    });
+
     vm.onToolbarSort = (sort) => {
         vm.toolbarSortValue = sort;
 
         const queryParams = Object.assign(
+            {},
             $state.params.project_search,
+            paginateQuerySet,
             { order_by: sort.value }
         );
 
+        // Update URL with params
+        $state.go('.', {
+            project_search: queryParams
+        }, { notify: false, location: 'replace' });
+
         qs.search(GetBasePath(vm.list.basePath), queryParams)
             .then(({ data }) => {
                 vm.dataset = data;
diff --git a/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.controller.js b/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.controller.js
index 6da86f4880..2f279784d8 100644
--- a/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.controller.js
+++ b/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.controller.js
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export default ['$scope', '$stateParams', '$state', '$filter', 'GetBasePath', 'Q
                 }
                 $scope.dataset = res.data;
                 $scope.collection = res.data.results;
-                $scope.$emit('updateDataset', res.data);
+                $scope.$emit('updateDataset', res.data, queryset);
             });
         };
 
diff --git a/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.directive.js b/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.directive.js
index 73d6eed26b..b07ad12212 100644
--- a/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.directive.js
+++ b/awx/ui/client/src/shared/paginate/paginate.directive.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export default ['templateUrl',
                 dataset: '=',
                 iterator: '@',
                 basePath: '@',
-                querySet: '=',
+                querySet: '=?',
                 maxVisiblePages: '@',
                 hideViewPerPage: '='
             },