diff --git a/src/archive/zip.rs b/src/archive/zip.rs
index b02e6e3..260d307 100644
--- a/src/archive/zip.rs
+++ b/src/archive/zip.rs
@@ -238,9 +238,7 @@ where
                 }
             };
 
-            #[cfg(unix)]
-            let options = options.unix_permissions(metadata.permissions().mode());
-
+            let mode = metadata.permissions().mode();
             let entry_name = path.to_str().ok_or_else(|| {
                 FinalError::with_title("Zip requires that all directories names are valid UTF-8")
                     .detail(format!("File at '{path:?}' has a non-UTF-8 name"))
@@ -257,7 +255,7 @@ where
 
                 // This approach writes the symlink target path as the content of the symlink entry.
                 // We detect symlinks during extraction by checking for the Unix symlink mode (0o120000) in the entry's permissions.
-                let symlink_options = options.unix_permissions(0o120777);
+                let symlink_options = options.unix_permissions(0o120000 | (mode & 0o777));
                 writer.add_symlink(entry_name, target_name, symlink_options)?;
             } else {
                 #[cfg(not(unix))]
@@ -269,6 +267,8 @@ where
 
                 let mut file = fs::File::open(path)?;
 
+                #[cfg(unix)]
+                let options = options.unix_permissions(mode);
                 // Updated last modified time
                 let last_modified_time = options.last_modified_time(get_last_modified_time(&file));