Mehmet Hayri Efendi

Mehmet Hayri Efendi was born in Kiğı in 1880/81 (AH 1298). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as jandarma.

Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 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 Kiğı in 1902/03 (AH 1320). The official was then about 21 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 150 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1909/10, the official was about 28 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1909/10, shows Mülazım in Erzurum, with 150 kuruş a month. In 1910/11 the record shows Mülazım in Erzincan, the salary going from 150 to 300 kuruş a month (before: Mülazım in Erzurum).

The highest salary, 500 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1911 as Mülazım. 50 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 3 years with a salary the median is 300 kuruş a month, with 2 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 200 kuruş, is seen in 1911. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 82.57 per cent a year on average.