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Mehmed Ali Vehbi Efendi

Born 1883/84 (AH 1301) · Mecca (Mekke) · Dated entries 1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.148/37, s.37

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1903/04 (AH 1321): Muhasebe Kalemi görevlisi, Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi, 20 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322): Muhasebe Kalemi görevlisi, Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi, 20 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322): Muhasebe Kalemi görevlisi, Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi, 30 kuruşAH 1321AH 1322
Places and reading notes
  • Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

2 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 2 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.

1Mecca (Mekke)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Mecca (Mekke)

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

  1. 1

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Mecca (Mekke)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 2 recorded years

    Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    AH entries: 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Muhasebe Kalemi görevlisi

      20 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Muhasebe Kalemi görevlisi

      20 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    3. Muhasebe Kalemi görevlisi

      30 kuruşCalculated age 21

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.

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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
1903/04 (AH 1321)20405150 to 1,4500.9%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)30400135 to 1,5001.4%1493

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
015301903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221903/04 (AH 1321) · 20 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322) · 20 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322) · 30 kuruş

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● 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. Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi2
    1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322)

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. Hicaz Vilayeti Muhasebe Kalemi20 to 30

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. 1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322)

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 şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mekke sıbyan mektebi; Mekke rüşdiye mektebi [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

Personal details

Birthplace
Mekke [source]
Birth year
1883/84 (AH 1301) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.148/37, s.37 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Rüşdiye şahadetnamesi [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Mekke sıbyan mektebi; Mekke rüşdiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Hicaz [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 175

    240 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.148/37, s.37.

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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 2 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 3 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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