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Mehmet Cemal 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 Cemal Efendi was born in Çorum in 1885/86 (AH 1303). At about 20, in 1906/07, Mehmet Cemal began work, on a first salary of 20 kuruş. The first annual entry, for 1906/07, names Mehmet Cemal as İdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisi, with no place.

The salary went from 20 kuruş a month in 1906/07 to 50 in 1908/09, the peak, when 1 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1908/09.

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. Çorum

    Born 1885/86 (AH 1303)

  2. Place not recorded

    1906 to 1909 (AH 1324 to 1326)

    İdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisi

    20 to 50 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
02040601906/07AH 13241907/08AH 13251908/09AH 132650 kuruşİdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisi
Salary against the medians of the same year
20501002005001906/07AH 13241907/08AH 13251908/09AH 1326This 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 Cemal Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1906/07204500%
1908/09504001%

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 Cemal Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1906/07AH 1324First work20first-salary field
1906 to 1909AH 1324 to 1326İdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisi
3 entries
YearSalary
1906/0720
1907/08
1908/0950
20 to 50

Record

Personal

Born
1885/86 (AH 1303)
Birthplace
Çorum

First work

Year
1906/07 (AH 1324)

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 birthplace

Of the 54 officials born in Çorum, 45 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Cemal Efendi had the lowest salary of them.

The page of Çorum, with the 54 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 144 officials whose first annual entry is for 1906/07 (AH 1324), 118 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Cemal Efendi had the 115th highest salary of them.

All 144 officials whose first annual entry is for 1906/07 (AH 1324)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Cemal Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1906/07AH 1324İdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisi20Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsDH. SAID 153/222
1907/08AH 1325İdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsDH. SAID 153/222
1908/09AH 1326İdare Meclisi Vakıflar Kalemi görevlisi50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsDH. SAID 153/222
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 Cemal 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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