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Kasım Zihni Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Shkodër (İşkodra) · Dated entries 1892 to 1907 (AH 1310 to 1324)

Languages Turkish

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Life and career

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1Shkodër (İşkodra)Taşköprü
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Shkodër (İşkodra)

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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.

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. İşkodra Rüsumat Nezareti mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1893/94 (AH 1311) · 3 recorded years

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    AH entries: 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    1. İşkodra Rüsumat Nezareti mülazımı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. İşkodra Rüsumat Nezareti mülazımı

      Calculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Shkodër (İşkodra) / Taşköprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      İşkodra Rüsumat Nezareti mülazımı

      Calculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Taşköprü

      Taşköprü muhafaza memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315) · 8 recorded years

    Taşköprü

    AH entries: 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    1. Taşköprü muhafaza memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Taşköprü muhafaza memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Taşköprü / Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Taşköprü

      Taşköprü muhafaza memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Shkodër (İşkodra)

      Merkez Gümrük transit kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 35

  7. 7

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Merkez Gümrük transit kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Merkez Gümrük muayene memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 36

2 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

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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
1896/97 (AH 1314)200450150 to 1,57512.7%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)200400140 to 1,42515.0%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)200400144 to 1,40014.6%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)200400140 to 1,44015.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)200400140 to 1,50015.0%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)200400150 to 1,52014.8%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)200400150 to 1,50014.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)200405150 to 1,45015.2%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)200400135 to 1,50015.2%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)200430125 to 1,50015.8%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)200450150 to 1,52515.5%1371

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. 1896 to 1906 (AH 1314 to 1323)
  2. 1892 to 1907 (AH 1310 to 1324)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1896 to 1906 (AH 1314 to 1323)
  2. 1892 to 1897 (AH 1310 to 1314)
  3. 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)
  4. 1906/07 (AH 1324)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling İbtidai; rüşdiye [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 Osmanlı bürokrasisinde görev yapan İşkodralı devlet memurları

    AHMET MURAT ATABAY · 2022 · Pages 207, 208

Read the original source accounts · 20 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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