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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ

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

The life of ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ began in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib). Work began in Afyonkarahisar in 1885/86 (AH 1303). Every annual entry from 1885/86 to 1892/93 places ÖMER SEMA İ İ in the same post, Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı, in Afyonkarahisar, the birthplace.

Pay rose from 60 kuruş a month in 1889/90 to a peak of 300 in 1892/93, in Afyonkarahisar, when 27 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over three years the salaries add up to 5,760 kuruş, 40 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1892/93.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry01002003001885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 1310300 kuruşTahrirat Kalemi mülazımıNafia kâtibi
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 1310This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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 ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1889/90604003802%
1890/911204003507%
1892/9330040034027%

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 ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1885/86AH 1303First workAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
1885 to 1891AH 1303 to 1308Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı
8 entries
YearSalary
1885/86
1886/87
1887/88
1888/89
1889/90
1889/9060
1890/91120
1890/91120
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)120
No annual entry: 1891/92 (AH 1309)
1892/93AH 1310Nafia kâtibiAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)300

Record

Personal

First work

Year
1885/86 (AH 1303)

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 42 officials with entries in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) in the same years, 38 have a recorded salary; ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ had the 28th highest salary of them.

All 100 officials with entries in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

Same birthplace

Of the 125 officials born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), 117 have a recorded salary; ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ had the 76th highest salary of them.

The page of Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), with the 125 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 181 officials whose first annual entry is for 1885/86 (AH 1303), 164 have a recorded salary; ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ had the 114th highest salary of them.

All 181 officials whose first annual entry is for 1885/86 (AH 1303)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1885/86AH 1303Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımıAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1886/87AH 1304Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımıAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1887/88AH 1305Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımıAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1888/89AH 1306Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımıAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1889/90AH 1307Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımıAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1889/90AH 1307Tahrirat Kalemi mümeyyiz vekiliAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)60Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1890/91AH 1308Meclis-i İdare Başkitabet refakatiAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)120Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1890/91AH 1308Mübeyyiz-i evvelAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)120Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
1892/93AH 1310Nafia kâtibiAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records143 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 170, s. 101.
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 ÖMER SEMA İ EFEND İ 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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