diff --git a/tools/pom.xml b/tools/pom.xml
index 50d702c885b..487d689752d 100644
--- a/tools/pom.xml
+++ b/tools/pom.xml
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
 		<!-- Note: see https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/packages/1954682/versions
 			for the icu4j.version tag to use. In general we should just use the latest
 			SNAPSHOT for the ICU version that we want, so this should only need updating
-			when the ICU version changes e.g. from 74.0.1, to 74.1, to 75.0.1, then to 75.1 -->
-		<icu4j.version>75.1-SNAPSHOT</icu4j.version>
+			when the ICU version changes e.g. from 74.0.1, to 74.1, to 75.0.1, then to 75.1.
+			You can use github actions in icu to manually push the latest SNAPSHOT version. -->
+		<icu4j.version>76.0.1-SNAPSHOT</icu4j.version>
 		<junit.jupiter.version>5.8.2</junit.jupiter.version>
 		<maven-surefire-plugin-version>3.1.0</maven-surefire-plugin-version>
 		<assertj-version>3.11.1</assertj-version>