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Mustafa Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Gelibolu · Dated entries 1882 to 1903 (AH 1300 to 1320)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 20/69; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 122/161

The career, year by year

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

Follow 5 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.

Gelibolu
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Gelibolu Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi

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.

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

  1. 1

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Gelibolu Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gelibolu Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Memur

      50 kuruş

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Gelibolu Tahrir ve Vergi Kalemi

    Not yet located on the map: Gelibolu Tahrir ve Vergi Kalemi

    1. refik-i sani

      250 kuruş

  3. 3

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

    Defter-i Hakani Kalemi

    AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Defter-i Hakani Kalemi

    1. mülazım (Defter-i Hakani Kalemi)

    2. ikinci kâtip

      195 kuruş

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 14 recorded years

    Gelibolu

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahvil ve Vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruş

    2. Tahvil ve Vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Gelibolu / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Gelibolu

      Tahvil ve Vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

2 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.

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
1882/83 (AH 1300)50400150 to 1,4001.7%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)250400150 to 1,40019.6%1720
1887/88 (AH 1305)195400150 to 1,50014.2%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)300400135 to 1,50029.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)300400130 to 1,50029.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)300400125 to 1,50028.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)300400140 to 1,50028.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)300400140 to 1,50029.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)300400150 to 1,52029.0%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)300400150 to 1,50028.8%1627

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. 1888 to 1903 (AH 1306 to 1320)
  2. Defter-i Hakani Kalemi2
    1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)
  3. Gelibolu Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi1
    1882/83 (AH 1300)
  4. Gelibolu Tahrir ve Vergi Kalemi1
    1883/84 (AH 1301)

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. Defter-i Hakani Kalemi195
  2. Gelibolu Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi50
  3. Gelibolu Tahrir ve Vergi Kalemi250

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. 1888 to 1903 (AH 1306 to 1320)
  2. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
  3. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  4. 1886/87 (AH 1304)
  5. 1883/84 (AH 1301)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi (şehadetname) [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 kayıtlarına göre Gelibolu doğumlu memurlar (1879-1909)

    OSMAN UMUT NAL · 2026 · Pages 143

    BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 20/69; 300 kuruş maaş ile terfi etmiş, 11 Temmuz – 13 Eylül 1907 tarihleri arasında kadar 100 kuruş ek maaş ile Duyun-u Umumiye Nezareti Muhasebesi nde refik-i evvel olarak görevini yerine getirmiştir. 14 Şubat 1909 tarihinde 500 kuruş maaş ile Dersaadet ve çevresi Duyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti Muhasebesi görevine nakledilmiş ve maaşı 14 Mart 1909 tarihinde 600 kuruşa yükseltilmiştir. 22 Mart 1909 tarihinde sekiz yüz kuruş maaşla Posta ve Telgraf Müdüriyeti Kalemine nakledilmesi nedeniyle, 28 Mayıs 1909 tarihinde, hâlihazırda sürdürdüğü görevinden ayrılmıştır (BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 122/161). 4.101. Mustafa Necati Efendi Esnaftan Hüseyin Ağa’nın oğludur. 1869 senesinde Gelibolu’da doğmuştur. Sıbyan mektebi nde temel dinî ilimler dersleri almıştır. Gelibolu Rüş diye Mektebinde Arapça, Farsça, fenn -i hesab, coğrafya ve tarih dersleri görmüştür. Rumca konuşabilir, Türkçe okuryazardır.; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 20/69

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 20 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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