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Yusuf Ziya Efendi

Born 1873/74 (AH 1290) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1886 to 1910 (AH 1304 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00075_00153

The career, year by year

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

Follow 8 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.

1Çemişgezek
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Çemişgezek

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.

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

  1. 1

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube memuru

      80 kuruşCalculated age 14

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 3 recorded years

    İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube

    AH entries: 1305, 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube

    1. İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube memuru

      80 kuruşCalculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube memuru

      80 kuruşCalculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube / Sıhhiye Dairesi kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube; Sıhhiye Dairesi kalemi

    1. İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube

      İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube memuru

      80 kuruşCalculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sıhhiye Dairesi kalemi

      Sıhhiye Dairesi kalemi dördüncü sınıf memuru

      320 kuruşCalculated age 18

  5. 5

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 2 recorded years

    Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi

    AH entries: 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi üçüncü sınıf memuru

      576 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi üçüncü sınıf memuru

      576 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi; Location not recorded

    1. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi

      Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi üçüncü sınıf memuru

      576 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi ikinci sınıf memuru

      676 kuruşCalculated age 32

  7. 7

    1905/06 (AH 1323) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi ikinci sınıf memuru

      676 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi birinci sınıf memuru

      970 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Place not recorded / Süvari Dairesi İkinci Şube

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Süvari Dairesi İkinci Şube

    1. Place not recorded

      Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi birinci sınıf memuru

      970 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Süvari Dairesi İkinci Şube

      Süvari Dairesi İkinci Şube memuru

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 37

3 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
1886/87 (AH 1304)80400150 to 1,5003.9%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)80400150 to 1,5004.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)80400135 to 1,5004.2%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)80400130 to 1,5004.1%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)320400125 to 1,50038.2%1896
1902/03 (AH 1320)576400150 to 1,50067.3%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)576405150 to 1,45066.5%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)676400135 to 1,50072.0%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)676430125 to 1,50069.7%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)676450150 to 1,52568.5%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)864460135 to 1,61574.8%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)970400150 to 2,00075.5%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,000600200 to 2,00068.9%1088

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. İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube5
    1886 to 1891 (AH 1304 to 1308)
  2. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi3
    1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322)
  3. Sıhhiye Dairesi kalemi1
    1890/91 (AH 1308)
  4. Süvari Dairesi İkinci Şube1
    1909/10 (AH 1327)

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. İstihkâm Dairesi Birinci Şube80
  2. Süvari Dairesi Tahrirat Kalemi576
  3. Sıhhiye Dairesi kalemi320
  4. Süvari Dairesi İkinci Şube1,000

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. 1886 to 1891 (AH 1304 to 1308)
  2. 1904 to 1909 (AH 1322 to 1326)
  3. 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322)
  4. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  5. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  6. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Menşe-i Küttâb [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 250, 251

    346 DH_SAİDd_____00075_00153

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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