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Mustafa Hamdi Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Tokat · Dated entries 1885 to 1911 (AH 1303 to 1328)

Archival references BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 100, s. 441; BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 100, s. 442

The career, year by year

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

Follow 12 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.

1TokatAmasyaKırşehirSinopBolu
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 12 · Tokat

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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.

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Tokat

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Tokat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Muhasebe Dairesi Kâtibi

      40 kuruşCalculated age 15

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Tokat

    1. İdare Meclisi İkinci Kâtibi

      120 kuruşCalculated age 17

  4. 4

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Tokat

    1. Tahrîrât Dairesi İkinci Müsevvidi

      Calculated age 20

  5. 5

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 7 recorded years

    Amasya

    AH entries: 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sancak İdare Meclisi Başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. Sancak İdare Meclisi Başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Amasya / Tokat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Amasya

      Sancak İdare Meclisi Başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tokat

      Sancak İdare Meclisi Başkâtibi

      280 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Tokat / Kırşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tokat

      Sancak İdare Meclisi Başkâtibi

      280 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kırşehir

      Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      810 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 4 recorded years

    Kırşehir

    AH entries: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.

    1. Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      810 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      810 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Kırşehir / Sinop

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kırşehir

      Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      810 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sinop

      Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      900 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Sinop

    1. Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      900 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

  11. 11

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Sinop / Bolu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sinop

      Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      900 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bolu

      Sancak Tahrîrât Müdürü

      900 kuruşCalculated age 38

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Bolu

    1. Mutasarrıf Vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 40

      Recorded service ending

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

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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
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
1885/86 (AH 1303)40400150 to 1,5001.8%1787
1887/88 (AH 1305)120400150 to 1,5007.1%1762
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)810400150 to 1,52077.5%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)810400150 to 1,50078.7%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)810405150 to 1,45078.2%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)810400135 to 1,50078.4%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)810430125 to 1,50076.6%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)900450150 to 1,52575.0%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)900460135 to 1,61575.1%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)900400150 to 2,00073.7%1232

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. 1893 to 1901 (AH 1311 to 1318)
  2. 1901 to 1907 (AH 1319 to 1324)
  3. 1885 to 1902 (AH 1303 to 1319)
  4. 1906 to 1909 (AH 1324 to 1326)
  5. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

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. Tokat40 to 280
  2. Bolu900

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. 1893 to 1902 (AH 1311 to 1319)
  2. 1901 to 1909 (AH 1319 to 1326)
  3. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  5. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
  6. 1890/91 (AH 1308)

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 İbtidai Mektebi [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı döneminde Tokatlı devlet memurları ( 1879-1909 )

    ÜMMÜHAN UĞURLU · 2013 · Pages 236, 237, 238, 239

    BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 100, s. 441; 22 Şevval 1326 (17 Kasım 1908) tarihinde 900 kuruş maaş ve becayiş usulü ile Bolu Sancağı Tahrîrât Müdürlüğü’ne nakil edilmiştir (BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 100, s. 441). 12 Zilhicce 1328 (15 Aralık 1910) tarihine kadar Bolu Sancağı Mutasarrıflığı Vekâleti görevini de yürüten Mustafa Efendi’nin vazifesindeki başarı ve istikrar, Bolu İdare Meclisi’nin 15 Şaban 1331 (20 Temmuz 1913 ) tarihli, Mutasarrıflığın da 5 Ramazan 1331 (8 Ağustos 1913) tarihli mazbatalarındaki ifadelerinden anlaşılmış ve mazbatalar Sicill -i Ahvâl İdare -i Umumi yesi’nce görülerek iade edilmiştir 18 Şevval 1331 (20 Eylül 1913) (BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 100, s. 442).; BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 100, s. 441

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 20 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 31 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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