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Yusuf Kemal 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

Yusuf Kemal Efendi was born in Kırşehir in 1850/51 (AH 1267). From the first annual entry, for 1869/70, to 1872/73, every annual entry places Yusuf Kemal in the same post, Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı (Nakil), in Kırşehir, the birthplace.

Pay rose from 150 kuruş a month in 1869/70 to a peak of 240 in 1872/73, in Kırşehir, when 23 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, four years of salary come to 8,280 kuruş, 41 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1872/73.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003001869/70AH 12861870/71AH 12871871/72AH 12881872/73AH 1289240 kuruşTahrirat kalemi mülazımı (Nakil)
Salary against the medians of the same year
1002005001,0001869/70AH 12861870/71AH 12871871/72AH 12881872/73AH 1289This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, 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 Yusuf Kemal Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1869/701504007759%
1870/711504005389%
1871/72150420.557610%
1872/7324045055023%

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 Yusuf Kemal Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workKırşehir
1869 to 1873AH 1286 to 1289Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı (Nakil)
6 entries
YearSalary
1869/70
1869/70150
1870/71150
1871/72150
1872/73150
1872/73240
Kırşehir240

Record

Personal

Born
1850/51 (AH 1267)
Birthplace
Kırşehir

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 place, same years

Of the 7 officials with entries in Kırşehir in the same years, 6 have a recorded salary; Yusuf Kemal Efendi had the lowest salary of them.

All 65 officials with entries in Kırşehir

Same birthplace

Of the 72 officials born in Kırşehir, 65 have a recorded salary; Yusuf Kemal Efendi had the 58th highest salary of them.

The page of Kırşehir, with the 72 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 134 officials whose first annual entry is for 1869/70 (AH 1286), 121 have a recorded salary; Yusuf Kemal Efendi had the 118th highest salary of them.

All 134 officials whose first annual entry is for 1869/70 (AH 1286)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Yusuf Kemal Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1869/70AH 1286Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı (Nakil)KırşehirAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records164 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 07/803, s.803.
1869/70AH 1286Asâkir-i zabıt kâtibiKırşehir150Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records164 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 07/803, s.803.
1870/71AH 1287Asâkir-i zabıt kâtibiKırşehir150Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records164 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 07/803, s.803.
1871/72AH 1288Asâkir-i zabıt kâtibiKırşehir150Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records164 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 07/803, s.803.
1872/73AH 1289Asâkir-i zabıt kâtibiKırşehir150Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records164 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 07/803, s.803.
1872/73AH 1289Meclis-i temyiz kâtibiKırşehir240Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records164 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 07/803, s.803.
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 Yusuf Kemal 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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