diff --git a/projects/clr/rocclr/runtime/device/pal/paldevice.hpp b/projects/clr/rocclr/runtime/device/pal/paldevice.hpp
index bb25529240..f3fd74fc6b 100644
--- a/projects/clr/rocclr/runtime/device/pal/paldevice.hpp
+++ b/projects/clr/rocclr/runtime/device/pal/paldevice.hpp
@@ -406,8 +406,9 @@ class Device : public NullDevice {
   //! Returns the number of available compute rings
   uint numExclusiveComputeEngines() const { return exclusiveComputeEnginesId_.size(); }
 
-  //! Returns the array of available compute rings
-  const auto& exclusiveComputeEnginesId() const { return exclusiveComputeEnginesId_; }
+  //! Returns the map of available exclusive compute rings with the engine index 
+  const std::map<ExclusiveQueueType, uint32_t>& exclusiveComputeEnginesId() const
+    { return exclusiveComputeEnginesId_; }
 
   //! Returns the number of available DMA engines
   uint numDMAEngines() const { return numDmaEngines_; }