Tursi Beşaye 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
Tursi Beşaye Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1879/80 (AH 1297) into the Musevi community; the father's occupation was "terzi". Work began in Istanbul in 1903/04, at about 23, on a first salary of 0 kuruş. Every annual entry from 1903/04 to 1909/10 places Tursi Beşaye in the same post, Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız), in Istanbul, the birthplace. The lists give Infisal for 1909/10 instead of a title.
Pay rose from 0 kuruş a month in 1903/04 to a peak of 50 in 1908/09, in Istanbul, when 1 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, seven years of salary come to 1,200 kuruş, 3 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1909/10.
Career and salary#
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
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903/04 | 0 | 405 | 550 | 0% | |
| 1904/05 | 0 | 400 | 550 | 0% | |
| 1905/06 | 0 | 430 | 600 | 0% | |
| 1906/07 | 0 | 450 | 715 | 0% | |
| 1907/08 | 0 | 460 | 700 | 0% | |
| 1908/09 | 50 | 400 | 700 | 1% | |
| 1909/10 | 50 | 600 | 850 | 0% |
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.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1903/04AH 1321 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0first-salary field |
| 1903 to 1910AH 1321 to 1327 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Infisala note on status, not a job |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1879/80 (AH 1297)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Musevi
- Nationality as recorded
- Yahudi
- Father's occupation
- terzi
First work
- Year
- 1903/04 (AH 1321)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
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 306 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, 293 have a recorded salary; Tursi Beşaye Efendi had the 291st highest salary of them.
- Ahmed Tevfik Paşa7 shared years; highest salary 40,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Raif Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 30,000 kuruş
- İbrahim Hayrullah Beğ7 shared years; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Said7 shared years; highest salary 10,000 kuruş
- Abdullah Sadık Bey7 shared years; highest salary 6,600 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 666 officials born in Istanbul, 446 have a recorded salary; Tursi Beşaye Efendi had the 441st highest salary of them.
- Ali Rıza Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); no salary recorded
- Ali Ziya Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Mahmud Celaleddin Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 1,450 kuruş
- Mehmed Said Beyborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); no salary recorded
- Mehmed Tevfik Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 800 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 142 officials whose first annual entry is for 1903/04 (AH 1321), 123 have a recorded salary; Tursi Beşaye Efendi had the 122nd highest salary of them.
- Ahmed Muhtar Beyfirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 2,000 kuruş
- Hüseyin Tahsin Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 140 kuruş
- Ali Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 100 kuruş
- Selim Sabit Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Yusûf Ziya Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 120 kuruş
All 142 officials whose first annual entry is for 1903/04 (AH 1321)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Tanzimat Dairesi kalfası (stajyer) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1908/09AH 1326 | Sicil ve Fihrist Kalemi mülazımı (maaşsız) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 0 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1908/09AH 1326 | Tanzimat Dairesi kalfası | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 10 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1908/09AH 1326 | Nafia ve Maarif Dairesi kalfası | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 50 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Nafia ve Maarif Dairesi kalfası | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 50 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Nafia ve Maarif Dairesi kalfası (İnfisal) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. | |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Infisal | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 180 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00171/00182, s. 361. |
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.
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|
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.
- Origin of the record: Source collection.
Subjects
- List of Ottoman officials (Osmanlı memurları listesi)
- Collective biography (kolektif biyografi)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)