Mehmet Bahaettin Bey

Mehmet Bahaettin Bey was born in Istanbul in 1852/53 (AH 1269). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish. By-name or family epithet as recorded: Pasazade.

Schooling recorded: İdadi Mektebi, with 9 years of schooling recorded, at a place worded Edirne. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Komotini (Gümülcine) in 1868/69 (AH 1285): Tahrirat Kalemi. The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 3 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 55 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1875/76, the official was about 22 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1875/76, shows no title. In 1876/77 the record shows Memur in Istanbul, with 400 kuruş a month (before: no title). In 1879/80 the record shows Sevk Kalemi in Istanbul, the salary going from 400 to 385 kuruş a month (before: Memur in Istanbul). In 1888/89 the record shows Kontrol Kalemi in Istanbul, with 430 kuruş a month (before: Sevk Kalemi in Istanbul).

The highest salary, 430 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1887/88 as Sevk Kalemi. 37 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 19 years with a salary the median is 400 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and 1 cut. The largest rise, 45 kuruş, is seen in 1887/88. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 0.4 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1893/94, when 42 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.

A death is recorded under 1894/95 (AH 1312): the year of the annual list that holds the status word Vefat, not a date of death.