Mehmet 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 Efendi was born in Yayçe; the father was a merchant (tüccar). The first salary was 50 kuruş a month. The annual lists begin in 1888/89 (AH 1306), with Mehmet as Bidâyet mahkemesi birinci kâtibi in Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş), where the entries run to 1892/93. The lists have no entry for 1889 to 1892. The last entries, from 1893 to 1900, name Mehmet as Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi, with no place.
The salary went from 250 kuruş a month in 1888/89 to 370 in 1896/97, the peak, when 40 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1899/1900.
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.
1888 to 1893 (AH 1306 to 1310)
Bidâyet mahkemesi birinci kâtibi 1888/89 (AH 1306); Bidâyet mahkemesi istintak dairesi görevi (İstifa) 1892/93 (AH 1310)
250 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years
No annual entry for 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309).
Ostroviçe as worded, no place record
1893 to 1900 (AH 1311 to 1317)
Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi
350 to 370 kuruş a month; entries in 7 years
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, 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
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89 | 250 | 400 | 300 | 21% | |
| 1893/94 | 350 | 400 | 38% | ||
| 1894/95 | 350 | 400 | 39% | ||
| 1895/96 | 350 | 400 | 38% | ||
| 1896/97 | 370 | 450 | 40% | ||
| 1897/98 | 370 | 400 | 43% | ||
| 1898/99 | 370 | 400 | 42% | ||
| 1899/1900 | 370 | 400 | 42% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| First work | 50first-salary field | ||
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Bidâyet mahkemesi birinci kâtibi | Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş) | 250 |
| No annual entry: 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309) | |||
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Bidâyet mahkemesi istintak dairesi görevi (İstifa) | Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş) | |
| 1893 to 1900AH 1311 to 1317 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | 350 | |
Record#
Personal
- Birthplace
- Yayçe
- Father's occupation
- Tüccar
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 2 officials with entries in Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş) in the same years, Mehmet Efendi had the lowest salary.
- İbrahim Fehim Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 173 officials whose first annual entry is for 1888/89 (AH 1306), 155 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Efendi had the 92nd highest salary of them.
- Mustafa Efendifirst annual entry 1888/89 (AH 1306); highest salary 700 kuruş
- Hüseyin Efendifirst entry in Ergani; no salary recorded
- Muhtar Efendifirst entry in Krujë (Akçahisar); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Ahmed Muhtar Efendifirst annual entry 1888/89 (AH 1306); highest salary 750 kuruş
- MUHARREM EFENDİfirst entry in Krujë (Akçahisar); highest salary 150 kuruş
All 173 officials whose first annual entry is for 1888/89 (AH 1306)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Bidâyet mahkemesi birinci kâtibi | Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş) | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 | |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Bidâyet mahkemesi birinci kâtibi | Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş) | 250 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Bidâyet mahkemesi istintak dairesi görevi (İstifa) | Nova Varoš (Yenivaroş) | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 | |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Ostroviçe | 350 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Ostroviçe | 350 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Ostroviçe | 350 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Ostroviçe | 350 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Çaniçe | 370 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Çaniçe | 370 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Çaniçe | 370 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi | Çaniçe | 370 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Şer’iye mahkemesi deâvi kalemi görevi (İstifa) | Çaniçe | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 186 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 76/181. 126 |
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.
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|
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.
- Origin of the record: Source collection.
Subjects
- List of Ottoman officials (Osmanlı memurları listesi)
- Collective biography (kolektif biyografi)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)