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Mehmed Cemal Efendi

Annual salary study and register readings

This study view uses the annual salary reference records. The main biography brings together the wider career and its sources.

Life and register readings

Mehmed Cemal Efendi was born in Harput in 1863/64 (AH 1280). Work began in 1900/01, at about 37, on a first salary of 450 kuruş. Of the 5,664 officials whose age at first work is known, fewer than 5 per cent started at 37 or older. The annual lists begin in 1900/01, with Mehmed Cemal as Nahiye Muduru and no place named.

The salary never rose above the first in the lists, 450 kuruş a month in 1900/01, as Nahiye Muduru, when 52 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1904/05.

Places in order of time

Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.

  1. Harput

    Born 1863/64 (AH 1280)

  2. Suralmış as worded, no place record

    1900 to 1905 (AH 1318 to 1322)

    Nahiye Muduru

    400 to 450 kuruş a month; entries in 5 years

  3. Mirgi as worded, no place record

    1901 to 1903 (AH 1319 to 1320)

    Nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)

    entries in 2 years

  4. Suralmış as worded, no place record

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)

    entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
02004006001900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 1322450 kuruşNahiye MuduruNahiye müdürü (İnfisal)Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 1322This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same title

Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary, and the median of the same province for the years in which at least 5 officials were paid in the province of the official's salary that year.

The numbers of the chart
Salary of Mehmed Cemal Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1900/0145040050052%
1901/0245040048051%
1902/0340040050444%
1903/0440040546643%
1904/0540040048042%

Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.

Point at a year for its salary, title, place and the median of all officials paid that year. Choose a row of the table to mark its years in the charts and its stop on the map.

Career of Mehmed Cemal Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1900/01AH 1318First work450first-salary field
1900 to 1905AH 1318 to 1322Nahiye Muduru
19 entries
YearSalary
1900/01450
1900/01450
1900/01450
1901/02450
1901/02450
1901/02450
1901/02400
1901/02450
1901/02
1901/02450
1901/02400
1902/03400
1902/03400
1902/03400
1902/03
1903/04400
1903/04
1904/05400
1904/05
450
1901 to 1903AH 1319 to 1320Nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)
4 entries
YearSalary
1901/02
1901/02
1902/03
1902/03
1904/05AH 1322Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)
2 entries
YearSalary
1904/05
1904/05

Record

Personal

Born
1863/64 (AH 1280)
Birthplace
Harput

First work

Year
1900/01 (AH 1318)

Recorded with

Officials who share a place, a job title, a school, a birthplace or the year of the first annual entry. Ranks compare the highest monthly salary of each official.

Same job title, same years

Of the 35 officials with the title Nahiye Muduru in the same years, Mehmed Cemal Efendi had the 30th highest salary.

All 157 officials with the title Nahiye Muduru

Same birthplace

Of the 169 officials born in Harput, 160 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Cemal Efendi had the 97th highest salary of them.

The page of Harput, with the 169 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 120 officials whose first annual entry is for 1900/01 (AH 1318), 106 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Cemal Efendi had the 44th highest salary of them.

All 120 officials whose first annual entry is for 1900/01 (AH 1318)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Cemal Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1900/01AH 1318Nahiye MuduruSuralmış450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1900/01AH 1318Nahiye MuduruMirgi450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1900/01AH 1318Nahiye MuduruMirgi450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye MuduruMirgi450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)MirgiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye MuduruMirgi450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)MirgiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye Muduru450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye Muduru400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye MuduruMirgi450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye MuduruMirgiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye MuduruSuralmış450Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1901/02AH 1319Nahiye MuduruSuralmış400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1902/03AH 1320Nahiye Muduru400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1902/03AH 1320Nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1902/03AH 1320Nahiye Muduru400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1902/03AH 1320Nahiye MuduruSuralmış400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1902/03AH 1320Nahiye müdürü (İnfisal)SuralmışAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1902/03AH 1320Nahiye MuduruSuralmışAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1903/04AH 1321Nahiye Muduru400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1903/04AH 1321Nahiye MuduruSuralmışAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1904/05AH 1322Nahiye Muduru400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1904/05AH 1322Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1904/05AH 1322Nahiye MuduruSuralmışAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
1904/05AH 1322Nahiye müdürü (İstifa)SuralmışAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD 77-47
What the sources named in this table are
Selected canonical career records
Dated AH projections of the selected canonical collection; documentary and inferred bases remain available in each dossier.
Recorded values of Mehmed Cemal Efendi with their sources
FieldRecorded valueSource
What the sources named in this table are
Selected canonical career records
Dated AH projections of the selected canonical collection; documentary and inferred bases remain available in each dossier.

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