diff --git a/packages/core/src/decorators/Embedded.ts b/packages/core/src/decorators/Embedded.ts
index a8d0ff9e2768..ad2fe46ef778 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/decorators/Embedded.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/decorators/Embedded.ts
@@ -30,4 +30,5 @@ export type EmbeddedOptions = {
   serializer?: (value: any) => any;
   serializedName?: string;
   groups?: string[];
+  persist?: boolean;
 };
diff --git a/packages/core/src/hydration/ObjectHydrator.ts b/packages/core/src/hydration/ObjectHydrator.ts
index 3cb45dbff0ce..51cb706c6df1 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/hydration/ObjectHydrator.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/hydration/ObjectHydrator.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ export class ObjectHydrator extends Hydrator {
       const idx = this.tmpIndex++;
       const nullVal = this.config.get('forceUndefined') ? 'undefined' : 'null';
 
+      if (prop.getter && !prop.setter) {
+        return [];
+      }
+
       if (prop.ref) {
         context.set('ScalarReference', ScalarReference);
         ret.push(`  const oldValue_${idx} = entity${entityKey};`);
diff --git a/packages/core/src/metadata/MetadataDiscovery.ts b/packages/core/src/metadata/MetadataDiscovery.ts
index 21a2913a382f..236e98f0a63e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/metadata/MetadataDiscovery.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/metadata/MetadataDiscovery.ts
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ export class MetadataDiscovery {
     this.initFieldName(embeddedProp, rootProperty !== embeddedProp && object);
     const prefix = embeddedProp.prefix === false ? '' : embeddedProp.prefix === true ? embeddedProp.embeddedPath?.join('_') ?? embeddedProp.fieldNames[0] + '_' : embeddedProp.prefix;
 
-    for (const prop of Object.values(embeddable.properties).filter(p => p.persist !== false)) {
+    for (const prop of Object.values(embeddable.properties)) {
       const name = (embeddedProp.embeddedPath?.join('_') ?? embeddedProp.fieldNames[0] + '_') + prop.name;
 
       meta.properties[name] = Utils.copy(prop, false);
@@ -970,6 +970,7 @@ export class MetadataDiscovery {
       meta.properties[name].embedded = [embeddedProp.name, prop.name];
       meta.propertyOrder.set(name, (order += 0.01));
       embeddedProp.embeddedProps[prop.name] = meta.properties[name];
+      meta.properties[name].persist ??= embeddedProp.persist;
 
       if (embeddedProp.nullable) {
         meta.properties[name].nullable = true;
diff --git a/tests/features/embeddables/GH5578.postgres.test.ts b/tests/features/embeddables/GH5578.postgres.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..67a6307542af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/features/embeddables/GH5578.postgres.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import { Collection, Embeddable, Embedded, Entity, ManyToOne, MikroORM, OneToMany, PrimaryKey, Property, raw } from '@mikro-orm/postgresql';
+
+
+@Embeddable()
+class Statistic {
+
+  @Property()
+  revenue!: number;
+
+}
+
+@Entity()
+class Event {
+
+  @PrimaryKey()
+  id!: number;
+
+  @Property()
+  name!: string;
+
+  @OneToMany({ entity: () => Order,  mappedBy: order => order.event })
+  orders = new Collection<Order>(this);
+
+  @Embedded({ entity: () => Statistic, nullable: true, prefix: false, persist: false })
+  statistic?: Statistic;
+
+}
+
+@Entity()
+class Order {
+
+  @PrimaryKey()
+  id!: number;
+
+  @Property()
+  total!: number;
+
+  @ManyToOne(() => Event, { nullable: true })
+  event!: Event;
+
+}
+
+let orm: MikroORM;
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  orm = await MikroORM.init({
+    entities: [Order, Event],
+    dbName: '5578',
+  });
+  await orm.schema.refreshDatabase();
+});
+
+beforeEach(() => orm.schema.clearDatabase());
+afterAll(() => orm.close(true));
+
+test('Hydrate non persistent properties on embeddable', async () => {
+  const eventFoo = orm.em.create(Event, { id: 1, name: 'Foo' });
+  const eventBar = orm.em.create(Event, { id: 2, name: 'Bar' });
+  orm.em.create(Order, { id: 1, total: 100, event: eventFoo });
+  orm.em.create(Order, { id: 2, total: 150, event: eventFoo });
+  orm.em.create(Order, { id: 3, total: 40, event: eventBar });
+  orm.em.create(Order, { id: 4, total: 20, event: eventBar });
+  await orm.em.flush();
+  orm.em.clear();
+
+  const qb = orm.em.createQueryBuilder(Event, 'e');
+
+  const results = await qb
+      .select([
+        'e.*',
+        raw('sum(o.total) as revenue'),
+      ])
+      .leftJoin('e.orders', 'o')
+      .groupBy('e.id')
+      .getResult();
+
+  expect(results.find(e => e.name === 'Foo')?.statistic?.revenue).toBe(250);
+  expect(results.find(e => e.name === 'Bar')?.statistic?.revenue).toBe(60);
+});
diff --git a/tests/features/embeddables/__snapshots__/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts.snap b/tests/features/embeddables/__snapshots__/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts.snap
index 51b9fa069e82..8ee8122b29b5 100644
--- a/tests/features/embeddables/__snapshots__/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts.snap
+++ b/tests/features/embeddables/__snapshots__/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts.snap
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 exports[`embedded entities with custom types schema: embeddables custom types 1 1`] = `
 "create table "parent" ("id" serial primary key, "nested_some_value" varchar not null, "nested_deep_some_value" varchar not null, "nested2" jsonb not null, "after" int null, "some_value" varchar null);
 
-create table "user" ("id" serial primary key, "savings_amount" numeric(14,2) not null, "after" int null);
+create table "user" ("id" serial primary key, "savings_amount" numeric(14,2) not null, "views" double precision null, "after" int null);
 
 "
 `;
diff --git a/tests/features/embeddables/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts b/tests/features/embeddables/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts
index e3e04ffc0b15..0a6c0148afed 100644
--- a/tests/features/embeddables/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts
+++ b/tests/features/embeddables/embeddable-custom-types.postgres.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { EntityProperty, Platform } from '@mikro-orm/core';
-import { Embeddable, Embedded, Entity, MikroORM, PrimaryKey, Property, Type } from '@mikro-orm/core';
+import { DoubleType, Embeddable, Embedded, Entity, MikroORM, PrimaryKey, Property, Type } from '@mikro-orm/core';
 import { PostgreSqlDriver } from '@mikro-orm/postgresql';
 import { mockLogger } from '../../helpers';
 
@@ -95,6 +95,21 @@ class Savings {
 
 }
 
+@Embeddable()
+class Statistic {
+
+  @Property({ type: DoubleType })
+  total: number;
+
+  @Property({ type: DoubleType, persist: true })
+  views!: number;
+
+  constructor(total: number) {
+    this.total = total;
+  }
+
+}
+
 @Entity()
 class User {
 
@@ -104,6 +119,9 @@ class User {
   @Embedded(() => Savings)
   savings!: Savings;
 
+  @Embedded(() => Statistic, { prefix: false, nullable: true, persist: false })
+  statistic?: Statistic;
+
   @Property({ nullable: true })
   after?: number; // property after embeddables to verify order props in resulting schema