diff --git a/airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/__init__.py b/airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 217e5db9607827..00000000000000
--- a/airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
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-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
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-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/index.rst b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/index.rst
index 4fd1ffee28698f..e0caa0cd6f4aeb 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/index.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/index.rst
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Content
     :maxdepth: 1
     :caption: Resources
 
-    Example DAGs <https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/main/airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags>
+    Example DAGs <https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/main/tests/system/providers/apache/pig>
     PyPI Repository <https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/>
     Installing from sources <installing-providers-from-sources>
 
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/operators.rst b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/operators.rst
index 04e29e175b1e25..70065b07738df6 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/operators.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-apache-pig/operators.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Pig programs are amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables
 
 use the PigOperator to execute a pig script
 
-.. exampleinclude:: /../../airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/example_pig.py
+.. exampleinclude:: /../../tests/system/providers/apache/pig/example_pig.py
     :language: python
     :start-after: [START create_pig]
     :end-before: [END create_pig]
diff --git a/airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/example_pig.py b/tests/system/providers/apache/pig/example_pig.py
similarity index 70%
rename from airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/example_pig.py
rename to tests/system/providers/apache/pig/example_pig.py
index ed1b34ab0c8a43..325f05b8eb7e11 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/apache/pig/example_dags/example_pig.py
+++ b/tests/system/providers/apache/pig/example_pig.py
@@ -17,24 +17,34 @@
 # under the License.
 
 """Example DAG demonstrating the usage of the PigOperator."""
+
+import os
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from airflow import DAG
 from airflow.providers.apache.pig.operators.pig import PigOperator
 
-dag = DAG(
+ENV_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_ENV_ID")
+DAG_ID = "example_adf_run_pipeline"
+
+with DAG(
     dag_id='example_pig_operator',
     schedule_interval=None,
     start_date=datetime(2021, 1, 1),
     catchup=False,
     tags=['example'],
-)
-
-# [START create_pig]
-run_this = PigOperator(
-    task_id="run_example_pig_script",
-    pig="ls /;",
-    pig_opts="-x local",
-    dag=dag,
-)
-# [END create_pig]
+) as dag:
+
+    # [START create_pig]
+    run_this = PigOperator(
+        task_id="run_example_pig_script",
+        pig="ls /;",
+        pig_opts="-x local",
+    )
+    # [END create_pig]
+
+
+from tests.system.utils import get_test_run  # noqa: E402
+
+# Needed to run the example DAG with pytest (see: tests/system/README.md#run_via_pytest)
+test_run = get_test_run(dag)