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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Osman Nuri Efendi

Dated entries 1867 to 1886 (AH 1284 to 1303)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 103/111

The career, year by year

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

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Nikšić (Nikşik)NiğdeMalatyaHavran
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Telgraf Mektebi / Place not recorded

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Telgraf Mektebi / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Telgraf Mektebi; Location not recorded

    1. Telgraf Mektebi

      First work as recorded

    2. Place not recorded

      Telgraf Memuru

      400 kuruş

  2. 2

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Necd-i Şarkî

    Not yet located on the map: Necd-i Şarkî

    1. Telgraf Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      400 kuruş

  3. 3

    1870/71 (AH 1287)

    Gaçka

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gaçka

    1. Telgraf Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      500 kuruş

    2. Telgraf Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      570 kuruş

  4. 4

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Nikšić (Nikşik) / Gaçka

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gaçka

    1. Nikšić (Nikşik)

      Telgraf Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      700 kuruş

    2. Gaçka

      Telgraf Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      700 kuruş

  5. 5

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Kopan / Mezakiye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kopan; Mezakiye

    1. Kopan

      Telgraf Posta Merkez memuru

      800 kuruş

    2. Mezakiye

      Telgraf Posta Merkez memuru

      800 kuruş

  6. 6

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Mezakiye

    Not yet located on the map: Mezakiye

    1. Telgraf Posta Merkez memuru

      300 kuruş

  7. 7

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years

    Niğde

    AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      800 kuruş

    2. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Niğde / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Niğde

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      Continuing service as described

    2. Malatya

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      600 kuruş

  9. 9

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Niğde

    1. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      Continuing service as described

  10. 10

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Niğde / Malatya ve Kayseri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Malatya ve Kayseri

    1. Niğde

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      Continuing service as described

    2. Malatya ve Kayseri

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezleri müdürü

      600 kuruş

  11. 11

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Niğde / Havran

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Niğde

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      Continuing service as described

    2. Havran

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      600 kuruş

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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
1867/68 (AH 1284)400458150 to 2,50041.5%435
1869/70 (AH 1286)400400150 to 2,25044.6%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)570400150 to 2,00064.0%649
1872/73 (AH 1289)700450140 to 2,35066.8%736
1876/77 (AH 1293)800420150 to 2,00073.2%1102
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)800400160 to 1,50077.8%1448
1882/83 (AH 1300)600400150 to 1,40067.4%1655
1884/85 (AH 1302)600400150 to 1,50067.7%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)600400150 to 1,50066.1%1787

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.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1880 to 1886 (AH 1298 to 1303)
  2. Gaçka2
    1870 to 1873 (AH 1287 to 1289)
  3. Mezakiye2
    1876 to 1880 (AH 1293 to 1297)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  5. Kopan1
    1876/77 (AH 1293)
  6. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

The 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
  1. Gaçka500 to 700
  2. Mezakiye300 to 800
  3. Kopan800

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 title
  1. 1880 to 1886 (AH 1298 to 1303)
  2. 1869 to 1873 (AH 1286 to 1289)
  3. 1876 to 1880 (AH 1293 to 1297)
  4. 1867/68 (AH 1284)
  5. 1884/85 (AH 1302)

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; Telgraf 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 Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Eğinli (Kemaliyeli) Devlet adamları (1820?1854)

    ÖMER FERİT İMLAK · 2012 · Pages 65, 66

    114 BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 103/111.

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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 · 12 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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