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Mustafa Şerif 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

Mustafa Şerif Efendi was born in Erzincan, into the İslam community, and the father's occupation was "Telgraf çavuşu". The annual lists begin in 1902/03 (AH 1320), with Mustafa Şerif as Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuriyeti mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi) in Erzincan, the birthplace, where the entries run to 1906/07. For 1903 to 1905 the lists have no entry. At the same time, from 1906/07, the lists also place Mustafa Şerif in Erzurum as a communications official (Muhabere Memuru).

The salary went from 300 kuruş a month in 1902/03 to 400 in 1905/06, the peak, in Erzincan, when 41 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1906/07.

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.

All 2 stops
first workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
1906/0712ErzincanErzurum
  1. Erzincan

    First work here; 1902 to 1907 (AH 1320 to 1324)

    Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuriyeti mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi) 1902/03 (AH 1320); Muhabere memuru (asaleten) 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)

    300 to 400 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years

    No annual entry for 1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322).

  2. Erzurum

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Muhabere Memuru 1906/07 (AH 1324); Muhabere memuru (Nakil) 1906/07 (AH 1324)

    380 kuruş a month; 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
no entry01002003004001902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 1324400 kuruşMuhabere memuru (asaleten)Muhabere MemuruMuhabere memuru (Nakil)
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 1324This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same province

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 Mustafa Şerif Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1902/0330040030028%
1905/0640043050041%
1906/0738045038050040%

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 Mustafa Şerif Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workErzincan
1902/03AH 1320Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuriyeti mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)
2 entries
YearSalary
1902/03
1902/03300
Erzincan300
No annual entry: 1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322)
1905 to 1907AH 1323 to 1324Muhabere memuru (asaleten)
3 entries
YearSalary
1905/06400
1906/07
1906/07380
Erzincan400 to 380
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere MemuruErzurum380
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere memuru (Nakil)Erzurum

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Erzincan
Community
İslam
Father's occupation
Telgraf çavuşu

First work

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 post (job title and place), same years

Of the 2 officials who held Muhabere Memuru in Erzurum in the same years, Mustafa Şerif Efendi had the highest salary.

Same place, same years

Of the 8 officials with entries in Erzincan in the same years, 7 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Şerif Efendi had the 3rd highest salary of them.

All 88 officials with entries in Erzincan

Same job title, same years

Of the 36 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, Mustafa Şerif Efendi had the 19th highest salary.

All 232 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru

Same birthplace

Of the 188 officials born in Erzincan, 168 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Şerif Efendi had the 102nd highest salary of them.

The page of Erzincan, with the 188 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 157 officials whose first annual entry is for 1902/03 (AH 1320), 138 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Şerif Efendi had the 44th highest salary of them.

All 157 officials whose first annual entry is for 1902/03 (AH 1320)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mustafa Şerif Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1902/03AH 1320Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuriyeti mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)ErzincanAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records175 BOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
1902/03AH 1320Muhabere memuru (geçici maaş)Erzincan300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records175 BOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
1905/06AH 1323Muhabere memuru (asaleten)Erzincan400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records175 BOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere memuru (asaleten)ErzincanAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records175 BOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere MemuruErzurum380Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records175 BOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere memuru (Nakil)ErzurumAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records175 BOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
1906/07AH 1324Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuruErzincan380Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD, 251/115
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 Mustafa Şerif 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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