Mehmet Halit Efendi
Born Year not recorded · Kars · Dated entries 1865 to 1910 (AH 1282 to 1327)
Languages Turkish
Archival references BOA, DH. SAĠD, No: 25/319; BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 128/335; BOA, DH. SAİD, No: 25/319
The career, year by year
Read every yearEach mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.
The life
Mehmet Halit Efendi was born in Kars. Schooling included Sıbyan Mektebi. The language repertoire included Turkish. [source]
The first place of work was Erzurum Mektûbî Kalemi. Dated career entries span 1865/66 (AH 1282) to 1909/10 (AH 1327) across 26 AH years, from Erzurum to Siran, beginning with Mektûbî Kalemi kâtibi and ending with entries for Kaymakam. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Erzurum, Çıldır Sancağı, Kars Sancağı and Menteşe Sancağı and 6 other named places. [1]
Monthly pay went from 300 kuruş in 1865/66 (AH 1282) to 931 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,500 kuruş in 1867/68 (AH 1284). [1]
Life and career
Follow 15 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.
Stage 1 of 15 · Erzurum
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.
8 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.
1 Mülazım (Mektûbî Kalemi) (Görevin sona ermesi)
Recorded service ending
Mektûbî Kalemi kâtibi
300 kuruş
2 1867/68 (AH 1284)
Erzurum / Çıldır Sancağı
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Çıldır Sancağı
Mektûbî Kalemi kâtibi (İnfisal)
Recorded service ending
Çıldır Sancağı
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,500 kuruş
3 1868/69 (AH 1285) · 2 recorded years
Çıldır Sancağı
AH entries: 1285, 1286. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Çıldır Sancağı
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,500 kuruş
Continuing service as described
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,500 kuruş
Continuing service as described
4 1870/71 (AH 1287)
Çıldır Sancağı / Kars Sancağı
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Çıldır Sancağı; Kars Sancağı
Çıldır Sancağı
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,500 kuruş
Continuing service as described
Kars Sancağı
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,500 kuruş
5 1871/72 (AH 1288) · 3 recorded years
Kars Sancağı
AH entries: 1288, 1289, 1290. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Kars Sancağı
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,500 kuruş
Continuing service as described
Tahrirat Müdürü (İnfisal)
Recorded service ending
6 1876/77 (AH 1293) · 2 recorded years
Menteşe Sancağı
AH entries: 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı
Tahrirat Müdürü
1,450 kuruş
Tahrirat Müdürü (İnfisal)
Recorded service ending
7 1892/93 (AH 1310)
Ova Kazası
Not yet located on the map: Ova Kazası
Kaymakam
1,250 kuruş
8 1893/94 (AH 1311)
Ova Kazası / Keskim Kazası
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Ova Kazası; Keskim Kazası
9 1894/95 (AH 1312) · 3 recorded years
Keskim Kazası
AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Keskim Kazası
10 1897/98 (AH 1315)
Keskim Kazası / Arapkir
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Keskim Kazası; Arapkir
11 1898/99 (AH 1316)
Arapkir / Kemaliye (Eğin)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Arapkir
12 1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 4 recorded years
Kemaliye (Eğin)
AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.
13 1903/04 (AH 1321)
Kemaliye (Eğin) / Harput
Within-year entry order unresolved
14 Kaymakam
Continuing service as described
Kaymakam (Azil)
Recorded service ending
15 1907/08 (AH 1325) · 3 recorded years
Siran
AH entries: 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Kaymakam
931 kuruş
Kaymakam (Azil)
Recorded service ending
3 entries without a resolved year
These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.
- Mülazım (Mektûbî Kalemi) · Erzurum · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
- Birth · Kars · Year not recorded
- First work as recorded · Erzurum Mektûbî Kalemi · Year not recorded
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
Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.
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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
| AH year | Official rate | Sample median | Sample p10 to p90 | Paid less | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1865/66 (AH 1282) | 300 | 400 | 150 to 2,000 | 32.9% | 341 |
| 1867/68 (AH 1284) | 1,500 | 458 | 150 to 2,500 | 82.5% | 435 |
| 1868/69 (AH 1285) | 1,500 | 475 | 150 to 3,000 | 81.2% | 505 |
| 1869/70 (AH 1286) | 1,500 | 400 | 150 to 2,250 | 82.9% | 609 |
| 1870/71 (AH 1287) | 1,500 | 400 | 150 to 2,000 | 84.4% | 649 |
| 1871/72 (AH 1288) | 1,500 | 420.5 | 125 to 2,375 | 84.0% | 712 |
| 1872/73 (AH 1289) | 1,500 | 450 | 140 to 2,350 | 84.2% | 736 |
| 1873/74 (AH 1290) | 1,500 | 405 | 130 to 2,200 | 84.7% | 805 |
| 1876/77 (AH 1293) | 1,450 | 420 | 150 to 2,000 | 85.9% | 1102 |
| 1877/78 (AH 1294) | 1,450 | 450 | 150 to 1,800 | 86.5% | 1160 |
| 1892/93 (AH 1310) | 1,250 | 400 | 135 to 1,500 | 86.6% | 1935 |
| 1893/94 (AH 1311) | 1,250 | 400 | 140 to 1,400 | 87.3% | 1929 |
| 1896/97 (AH 1314) | 1,125 | 450 | 150 to 1,575 | 83.2% | 2119 |
| 1897/98 (AH 1315) | 1,125 | 400 | 140 to 1,425 | 86.8% | 1891 |
| 1898/99 (AH 1316) | 1,125 | 400 | 144 to 1,400 | 86.4% | 1844 |
| 1907/08 (AH 1325) | 931 | 460 | 135 to 1,615 | 76.7% | 1290 |
| 1908/09 (AH 1326) | 931 | 400 | 150 to 2,000 | 75.5% | 1232 |
| 1909/10 (AH 1327) | 931 | 600 | 200 to 2,000 | 68.5% | 1088 |
Career patterns and pay
Recorded pay over the career
Kuruş · dated amountsSelect 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.
Where the career is recorded
Distinct AH years with career entriesThe six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.
Amounts recorded by place
Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate- Keskim Kazası1,125 to 1,250
- Çıldır Sancağı1,500
- Kars Sancağı1,500
- Siran931
- Arapkir1,125
- Menteşe Sancağı1,450
Six places with the most recorded career years. Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.
Titles across the recorded years
Distinct AH years with each recorded titleThe 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
- Kars192 other officialsAhmed Ferid Paşa born 1831/32 (AH 1247); highest salary 6,000 kuruş
- Erzurum8 other officialsHalil Hâlid Bey 2 shared years; highest salary 20,000 kuruş
- Sıbyan Mektebi562 other officialsAbdülhalim Paşa born 1807/08 (AH 1222); highest salary 45,000 kuruş
Education and personal record
All personal fields and their sources
Sources and evidence
- Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Karslı memurlar (1879-1909)
RÜVEYDE ÇİFÇİ · 2015 · Pages 96, 97
78 BOA, DH. SAĠD, No: 25/319.; 82 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 128/335.; BOA, DH. SAİD, No: 25/319
Read the original source accounts · 44 source entries →
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Yearly entries and their source passages · 26 dated AH years
Annual salary study and register readings
The separate annual salary reference account has 43 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.