The U.S. job market’s long-running winning streak barely survived the annual revisions to employment data.

The Labor Department’s updated results found 500,000 fewer jobs than previously reported. That’s the equivalent of wiping out more than two months of job growth at recent rates.

The 2018 job gain was cut to 2.31 million from 2.68 million. The 2017 and 2019 gains were about 2.1 million, meaning each year under President Donald Trump — while still strong — has been slightly slower than the 2.35 million rise in the final year of the Obama administration.

The revisions also lowered February 2019’s job gain from 56,000 to just 1,000. That revision barely maintained the record-long streak of hiring that began after the Great Recession and has now reached 112 months.

“It takes a little bloom off the rose,” said Joe Brusuelas, an economist at RSM, a tax advisory and consulting firm.

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The change stems from annual revisions the government makes after receiving a count of total jobs from tax records, which are released with a delay. Sharp revisions typically mean that the government didn’t precisely estimate how many new companies were started or how many went out of business.

For January, the jobs report showed U.S. payrolls increased by 225,000 jobs after an upwardly revised 147,000 gain in December, a jump that topped all estimates of economists. The unexpected job strength also reflects robust gains in weather-sensitive sectors including construction, which climbed by 44,000 for the strongest growth in a year in an unseasonably warm month.

The national jobless rate edged up to 3.6%, still near a half-century low, while average hourly earnings climbed 3.1% from a year earlier.