Official
Mustafa Rıza Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Adapazarı in 1879/80 (AH 1297). On record 1900 to 1905, 5 annual entries.
Archive reference 116_208; 413
Life#
Mustafa Rıza Efendi was born in Adapazarı in 1879/80 (AH 1297) into the Muslim (Müslüman) community. Schooling took seven years, at a middle school (Rüşdiye Mektebi).
Mustafa Rıza began work in Adapazarı in 1895/96, at about 16, with five unpaid years as a mülazım (apprentice) before a first salary of 200 kuruş. Every annual entry from 1900/01 to 1904/05 places Mustafa Rıza in the same post, postal official (Posta Memuru), in Adapazarı, the birthplace.
Pay rose from 200 kuruş a month in 1900/01 to a peak of 315 in 1904/05, as Posta Memuru in Adapazarı, when 31 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over five years the salaries add up to 13,380 kuruş, 45 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1904/05.
Career and salary#
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.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900/01 | 200 | 500 | 400 | 8% |
| 1901/02 | 200 | 500 | 400 | 9% |
| 1902/03 | 200 | 500 | 400 | 9% |
| 1903/04 | 200 | 475 | 400 | 8% |
| 1904/05 | 315 | 450 | 400 | 31% |
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.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1895/96AH 1313 | First work | Adapazarı | 200first-salary field |
| 1900 to 1905AH 1318 to 1322 | Posta Memuru | Adapazarı | 200 to 315 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1879/80 (AH 1297)
- Birthplace
- Adapazarı
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 5 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1895/96 (AH 1313)
- Place
- Adapazarı
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 200
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 6 officials with entries in Adapazarı in the same years, Mustafa Rıza Efendi had the 4th highest salary.
- Mehmet Raşit Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 970 kuruş
- Mustafa Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hüseyin Hayri Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mustafa Sabri Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Mehmet Arif Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 300 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 171 officials with the title Posta Memuru in the same years, Mustafa Rıza Efendi had the 141st highest salary.
- Mehmed Zülfikar Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Mehmet Behçet Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Salih Celalettin Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
- Hüseyin Fehmi Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 750 kuruş
- Ruantuvan Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 750 kuruş
Same school
Of the 3,206 officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi among their schools, 3,200 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Rıza Efendi had the 2,207th highest salary of them.
- Abbas Hilmi Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 450 kuruş
- Abdullah Agah Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Abdülmecid Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 690 kuruş
- Abdülmecit Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 220 kuruş
- Ahmet Burhanettin Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 400 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 11 officials born in Adapazarı, Mustafa Rıza Efendi had the 7th highest salary.
- Hüseyin Hayri Efendiborn 1877/78 (AH 1294); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mehmet Arif Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Unnamed official (188-61-60)born 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ali Haydar Efendiborn 1885/86 (AH 1303); highest salary 340 kuruş
- İbrahim Ethem Efendiborn 1885/86 (AH 1303); highest salary 300 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 140 officials whose first annual entry is for 1900/01 (AH 1318), 139 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Rıza Efendi had the 83rd highest salary of them.
- Mustafa Sabri Efendifirst entry in Adapazarı; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Ahmet Rüşdi Efendifirst entry in Hicaz; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Ali Refik Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 200 kuruş
- ANASTAŞ EFENDİfirst entry in Konya; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hasan Şevket Efendifirst entry in Damascus (Şam); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (5)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Posta Memuru | Adapazarı | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_208; 413 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Posta Memuru | Adapazarı | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_208; 413 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Posta Memuru | Adapazarı | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_208; 413 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Posta Memuru | Adapazarı | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_208; 413 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Posta Memuru | Adapazarı | 315 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_208; 413 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (13)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mustafa Rıza Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1297 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | adapazari | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | izmit | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 5 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1313 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1895 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Adapazari | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 200 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 5 annual entries of 5 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.
Subjects
- Mustafa Rıza Efendi
- Postal official (Posta Memuru)
- Adapazarı
- Rüşdiye school (Rüşdiye Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Biography of an Ottoman official (Osmanlı memurunun biyografisi)
- Career and pay (memuriyet ve maaş)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)