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Mehmed Salih Efendi

Born 1857/58 (AH 1274) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1879 to 1901 (AH 1297 to 1318)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00087_00037

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 5 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1Çemişgezek
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Çemişgezek

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

4 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1857/58 (AH 1274)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. İkinci daire emlak tahsildarı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 23

  3. 3

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 10 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. İkinci daire emlak tahsildarı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Altıncı daire tahsildarı

      1,100 kuruşCalculated age 33

    All 17 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Dokuzuncu belediye dairesi veznedarı

      650 kuruşCalculated age 42

  5. 5

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Vefat

      Calculated age 44

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1879/80 (AH 1297)500400180 to 1,80057.9%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)500400160 to 1,50061.0%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)500400150 to 1,50060.9%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)500400150 to 1,40060.0%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)500400150 to 1,40060.4%1720
1885/86 (AH 1303)750400150 to 1,50074.1%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)750400150 to 1,50073.6%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)750400150 to 1,50073.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)750400135 to 1,50074.5%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,100400130 to 1,50084.1%1874
1898/99 (AH 1316)650400144 to 1,40072.2%1844

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1885 to 1890 (AH 1303 to 1307)
  2. 1883 to 1886 (AH 1301 to 1303)
  3. 1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 1300)
  4. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)
  5. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  6. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 258, 259

    352 DH_SAİDd_____00087_00037

Read the original source accounts · 20 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 20 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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