İsmail Hakkı Efendi

İsmail Hakkı Efendi was born in Ankara in 1877/78 (AH 1294). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: İdadi Mektebi, with 9 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: Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Ankara in 1893/94 (AH 1311). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 5 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 100 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1898/99, the official was about 21 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1898/99, shows Mekâtib Memuru in Ankara, with 100 kuruş a month. In 1907/08 the record shows 3. Müdür in Kızılcahamam (Yabanabad), the salary going from 250 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Mekâtib Memuru in Ankara).

The highest salary, 500 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1907/08 as 3. Müdür. 65 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 300 kuruş. Over 10 years with a salary the median is 231 kuruş a month, with 4 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 250 kuruş, is seen in 1907/08. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 19.58 per cent a year on average.