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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Ömer Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Bosna · Dated entries 1903 to 1911 (AH 1321 to 1329)

Languages French, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 7 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

Bitola (Manastır)Diyarbakır
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Hicaz Demiryolu / Hüdavendigâr / Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

4 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Hicaz Demiryolu / Hüdavendigâr / Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hicaz Demiryolu; Hüdavendigâr; Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

    1. Hicaz Demiryolu

      First work as recorded

    2. Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

      Eskişehir–Ankara kısmı komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  2. 2

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

    Not yet located on the map: Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

    1. Eskişehir–Ankara kısmı komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  3. 3

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı / Aydın Demiryolu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı; Aydın Demiryolu

    1. Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı

      Eskişehir–Ankara kısmı komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aydın Demiryolu

      Aydın Demiryolu ve İnşaat Komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

  4. 4

    1906/07 (AH 1324) · 3 recorded years

    Aydın Demiryolu

    AH entries: 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Aydın Demiryolu

    1. Aydın Demiryolu ve İnşaat Komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Aydın Demiryolu ve İnşaat Komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Aydın Demiryolu / Bitola (Manastır)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Aydın Demiryolu

    1. Aydın Demiryolu

      Aydın Demiryolu ve İnşaat Komiseri

      1,250 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bitola (Manastır)

      Manastır komiseri

      2,000 kuruş

  6. 6

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Bitola (Manastır) / Diyarbakır

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bitola (Manastır)

      Manastır komiseri

      2,000 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Diyarbakır

      Diyarbakır vilayeti merkez mühendisi

      1,500 kuruş

  7. 7

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Diyarbakır

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Diyarbakır vilayeti merkez mühendisi

      1,500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Diyarbakır sermühendisi

      3,500 kuruş

2 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,250405150 to 1,45087.6%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)1,250400135 to 1,50087.3%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)1,250430125 to 1,50087.1%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)1,250450150 to 1,52585.7%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)1,250460135 to 1,61584.8%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)1,250400150 to 2,00082.4%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)2,000600200 to 2,00086.0%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)2,000500200 to 2,00087.4%732
1911 (AH 1329)3,500600250 to 2,50094.5%402

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Aydın Demiryolu5
    1905 to 1910 (AH 1323 to 1327)
  2. Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı3
    1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
  3. 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
  4. 1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  5. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  6. Hüdavendigâr1
    1903/04 (AH 1321)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Aydın Demiryolu1,250
  2. Eskişehir–Ankara demiryolu kısmı1,250
  3. Diyarbakır1,500 to 3,500
  4. Hüdavendigâr800

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1905 to 1910 (AH 1323 to 1327)
  2. 1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
  3. 1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  4. 1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
  5. 1911 (AH 1329)
  6. 1903/04 (AH 1321)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Mühendislik şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Üsküdar Rüşdiyesi ve İdadisi; Hendese-i Mülkiye Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • French · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 172, 173

Read the original source accounts · 16 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 9 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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