Mehmet Sait Efendi

Mehmet Sait Efendi was born in Sivas in 1878/79 (AH 1296). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Arabic, with Tekellum; Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Damascus (Şam) in 1893/94 (AH 1311). The official was then about 15 years old. The record gives 2 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 250 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1895/96, the official was about 16 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1895/96, shows Muhabere Memuru in Damascus, with 250 kuruş a month. In 1904/05 the record shows 2. Müdür in Hicaz, the salary going from 400 to 1,000 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Damascus). In 1906/07 the record shows 2. Müdür in Hafire, with 1,000 kuruş a month (before: 2. Müdür in Hicaz).

The highest salary, 1,000 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1904/05 as 2. Müdür. 87 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 450 kuruş. Over 12 years with a salary the median is 357.5 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 600 kuruş, is seen in 1904/05. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 13.43 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1906/07, when 85 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.