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Mehmet Asım 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

Born in Erzincan, Mehmet Asım Efendi came from the İslam community. The first salary was 200 kuruş a month. The annual lists begin in 1865/66 (AH 1282), with Mehmet Asım as Muhallefat kâtibi and no place named. For 1867 to 1870 and 1880 to 1885 the lists have no entry.

Pay rose from 400 kuruş a month in 1865/66 to a peak of 1,600 in 1877/78, when 88 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, 14 years of salary come to 196,800 kuruş, 2.8 times what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The last annual entry is for 1885/86.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entryno entry05001,0001,5002,0001865/66AH 12821867/68AH 12841869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021,600 kuruşJurnal kalemi üçüncü sınıf kâtibi
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0002,0001865/66AH 12821867/68AH 12841869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 1302This 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 Asım Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1865/6640040046%
1866/6740040042%
1870/7180040072%
1871/72800420.571%
1872/731,20045080%
1873/741,20040580%
1874/751,20045083%
1875/761,20045081%
1876/771,20042082%
1877/781,60045088%
18781,60045087%
1878/791,60040086%
1879/801,60040088%
1885/861,60040091%

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 Asım Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First work200first-salary field
1865 to 1867AH 1282 to 1283Muhallefat kâtibi
3 entries
YearSalary
1865/66400
1866/67400
1866/67333
400 to 333
No annual entry: 1867 to 1870 (AH 1284 to 1286)
1870 to 1880AH 1287 to 1297Jurnal kalemi üçüncü sınıf kâtibi
14 entries
YearSalary
1870/71800
1871/72800
1872/73800
1872/731,200
1873/741,200
1874/751,200
1875/761,200
1876/771,200
1877/781,200
1877/781,600
18781,600
1878/791,600
1879/801,600
1879/801,200
800 to 1,200
No annual entry: 1880 to 1885 (AH 1298 to 1302)
1885/86AH 1303Levazım Dairesi üçüncü şube müdür muavini1,600

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Erzincan
Community
İslam

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 188 officials born in Erzincan, 168 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Asım Efendi had the 17th highest salary of them.

The page of Erzincan, with the 188 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 112 officials whose first annual entry is for 1865/66 (AH 1282), 95 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Asım Efendi had the 22nd highest salary of them.

All 112 officials whose first annual entry is for 1865/66 (AH 1282)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Asım Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1865/66AH 1282Muhallefat kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD, 71/22
1866/67AH 1283Muhallefat kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD, 71/22
1866/67AH 1283Muhallefat kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun333Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1870/71AH 1287Jurnal kalemi üçüncü sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun800Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1871/72AH 1288Jurnal kalemi üçüncü sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun800Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1872/73AH 1289Jurnal kalemi üçüncü sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun800Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1872/73AH 1289Jurnal kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1873/74AH 1290Jurnal kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1874/75AH 1291Jurnal kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1875/76AH 1292Jurnal kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1876/77AH 1293Jurnal kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1877/78AH 1294Jurnal kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1877/78AH 1294Jurnal kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1878AH 1295Jurnal kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1878/79AH 1296Jurnal kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1879/80AH 1297Jurnal kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1879/80AH 1297Jurnal kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibiDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
1885/86AH 1303Levazım Dairesi üçüncü şube müdür muaviniDördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun1,600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records67 BOA, DH. SAİD, 49/77
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 Asım 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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