İlya 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

İlya Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1868/69 (AH 1285) into the Hristiyan community. At about 29, in 1897/98, İlya began work in Merzifon, on a first salary of 400 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1897/98, with İlya as Belediye eczacısı in Merzifon. The last post was in Pristina (Priştine) in 1899/1900.

The salary went from 400 kuruş a month in 1897/98 to 600 in 1899/1900, the peak, in Pristina, when two in three paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1899/1900.

Key numbers

Lifetime earnings2 years with a salary; 1.3 times the pay of an official on the median salary: 12,000 kuruş
Pay standingof the officials paid in the same years, mean of 2 years: Top 44%
Pay standing locallyof those paid in the provinces served, mean of 2 years: Top 29%
Average salarya month (6,000 a year); median 500: 500 kuruş
Highest salarya month, in 1899/1900: 600 kuruş
Years on record1897 to 1900, 2 with an entry: 3
Placesof the annual entries; 0 job titles held: 2
First salary in the annual listsa month, in 1897/98: 400 kuruş
Salary growth a year1 rise, 0 cuts: 22.5%
Age at first workabout 29 at the first annual entry: About 29
Salary at first worka month, first-salary field of the record: 400 kuruş
Standing of the last salaryof the officials paid in 1899/1900: Above 67%

Salaries are nominal monthly kuruş of the recorded years only; nothing is known about a year without an annual entry.

Places in order of time

Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.

All 3 stops

birthplacefirst workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there

Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Born 1868/69 (AH 1285)
Merzifon
First work 1897/98 (AH 1315); 1897/98 (AH 1315)
Belediye eczacısı
400 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Pristina (Priştine)
1899/1900 (AH 1317)
No annual entry for 1898/99 (AH 1316) before it.
Belediye eczacısı
600 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years

Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry

Salary against the medians of the same year

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 İlya Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
Year	Salary	Median, all officials	Median, same title	Median, same province	Paid less
1897/98	400	400		335	45%
1899/1900	600	400		400	67%

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 İlya Efendi, one row per stage
Years	Title	Place	Salary (kuruş a month)
1897/98AH 1315	First work	Merzifon	400first-salary field
1897/98AH 1315	Belediye eczacısı	Merzifon	400
No annual entry: 1898/99 (AH 1316)
1899/1900AH 1317	Belediye eczacısı	Pristina (Priştine)	600

Record

Personal

Born: 1868/69 (AH 1285)
Birthplace: Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Community: Hristiyan
Nationality as recorded: Rum

First work

Year: 1897/98 (AH 1315)
Place: Merzifon

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 2 officials with entries in Merzifon in the same years, İlya Efendi had the highest salary.

Tenudor Gabrilidis Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 600 kuruş

All 29 officials with entries in Merzifon

Same birthplace

Of the 666 officials born in Istanbul, 446 have a recorded salary; İlya Efendi had the 310th highest salary of them.

Abdüllatif Mazhar Efendiborn 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 500 kuruş
Abdüllatif Safa Beyborn 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 8,000 kuruş
ARADEŞES (SÜRMELİYAN) EFENDİborn 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 1,800 kuruş
Arzuman Efendiborn 1868/69 (AH 1285); no salary recorded
Baltazar Tomas Efendiborn 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 1,350 kuruş

The page of Istanbul, with the 666 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315), 150 have a recorded salary; İlya Efendi had the 38th highest salary of them.

Bedros Fuad Efendifirst annual entry 1897/98 (AH 1315); highest salary 4,000 kuruş
Mehmed Mucib Efendifirst annual entry 1897/98 (AH 1315); highest salary 648 kuruş
Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 50 kuruş
Mehmed Tevfik Beğ (Biren)first entry in Jerusalem (Kudüs); highest salary 30,000 kuruş
Süleyman Efendifirst annual entry 1897/98 (AH 1315); highest salary 400 kuruş

All 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of İlya Efendi
Year	Title	Place	Kuruş a month	Institution	Source	Archive reference
1897/98AH 1315	Belediye eczacısı	Merzifon	400	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	223 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00125/00102, s. 202.
1899/1900AH 1317	Belediye eczacısı	Pristina (Priştine)	600	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00125/00102, s. 202.

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 İlya Efendi with their sources
Field	Recorded value	Source