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Mehmet Şükrü 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

Mehmet Şükrü Efendi was born in Sivas in 1879/80 (AH 1297). The schooling was at a school for young children (Sıbyan Mektebi). Mehmet Şükrü had a first salary of 200 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1907/08, with Mehmet Şükrü as piyade tahsildarı (İnfisal) and no place named, with a rise to Suvari Tahsildari in 1908/09. The lists give Infisal for 1907/08 instead of a title.

Pay rose from 400 kuruş a month in 1908/09 to a peak of 550 in 1910/11, as Suvari Tahsildari, when 52 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1910/11.

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.

  1. Sivas

    Born 1879/80 (AH 1297)

  2. Sabri Mustafa Paşa kazası as worded, no place record

    1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326)

    piyade tahsildarı (İnfisal) 1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326); Infisal (a note on status, not a job) 1907/08 (AH 1325)

    entries in 2 years

  3. İkinci daire as worded, no place record

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Piyade Tahsildari

    300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

  4. Gümülcine sancağı on birinci daire as worded, no place record

    1908 to 1911 (AH 1326 to 1328)

    Suvari Tahsildari

    375 to 550 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
02004006001907/08AH 13251908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271910/11AH 1328550 kuruşpiyade tahsildarı (İnfisal)Piyade TahsildariSuvari Tahsildari
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001907/08AH 13251908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271910/11AH 1328This officialMedian, all officials

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 Mehmet Şükrü Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1908/0940040042%
1909/1050060041%
1910/1155050052%

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 Mehmet Şükrü Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First work200first-salary field
1907 to 1909AH 1325 to 1326piyade tahsildarı (İnfisal)
2 entries
YearSalary
1907/08
1908/09
1907/08AH 1325Infisala note on status, not a job
1908/09AH 1326Piyade Tahsildari300
1908 to 1911AH 1326 to 1328Suvari Tahsildari
4 entries
YearSalary
1908/09400
1909/10500
1910/11550
1910/11375
400 to 375

Record

Personal

Born
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Birthplace
Sivas

Education

School
Sıbyan Mektebischool for young children (primary school)

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 job title, same years

Of the 3 officials with the title Suvari Tahsildari in the same years, Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the highest salary.

All 39 officials with the title Suvari Tahsildari

Same school

Of the 563 officials with Sıbyan Mektebi among their schools, 496 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 206th highest salary of them.

All 563 officials with Sıbyan Mektebi

Same birthplace

Of the 399 officials born in Sivas, 282 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 94th highest salary of them.

The page of Sivas, with the 399 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 129 officials whose first annual entry is for 1907/08 (AH 1325), 117 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 29th highest salary of them.

All 129 officials whose first annual entry is for 1907/08 (AH 1325)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Şükrü Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1907/08AH 1325piyade tahsildarı (İnfisal)Sabri Mustafa Paşa kazasıAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1907/08AH 1325InfisalAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1908/09AH 1326Piyade Tahsildariİkinci daire300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1908/09AH 1326piyade tahsildarı (Nakil)İkinci daireAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1908/09AH 1326Suvari TahsildariGümülcine sancağı on birinci daire400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1909/10AH 1327Suvari TahsildariGümülcine sancağı on birinci daire500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1910/11AH 1328Suvari TahsildariGümülcine sancağı on birinci daire550Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records506 DH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
1910/11AH 1328Suvari TahsildariGümülcine sancağı on birinci daire375Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsDH.SAİD.d,nr.00126,s.325
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 Mehmet Şükrü 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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