Salih Safi Efendi

Salih Safi Efendi was born in Edirne in 1873/74 (AH 1290). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Darüşşafaka, with 12 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1889/90 (AH 1307). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 400 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1889/90, the official was about 16 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1889/90, shows Tahrirati Ecnebiye Kalemi in Istanbul, with 400 kuruş a month. In 1898/99 the record shows Kontrol Kalemi in Istanbul, with 420 kuruş a month (before: Tahrirati Ecnebiye Kalemi in Istanbul). In 1900/01 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Istanbul, the salary going from 450 to 800 kuruş a month (before: Kontrol Kalemi in Istanbul).

The highest salary, 800 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1900/01 as Seyyar Memur. 81 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 18 years with a salary the median is 420 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 350 kuruş, is seen in 1900/01. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 4.16 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1906/07, when 78 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.