Official
Mehmet Şükrü Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1880/81 (AH 1298). On record 1901 to 1908, 7 annual entries.
Archive reference 151-27-49
Life#
Mehmet Şükrü Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1880/81 (AH 1298) into the Muslim (Müslüman) community; the father was a telegraph official (telgraf memuru). Schooling took seven years, at a middle school (Rüşdiye Mektebi).
Mehmet Şükrü began work in Istanbul in 1898/99, at about 17, with three unpaid years as a mülazım (apprentice) before a first salary of 50 kuruş. Every annual entry from 1901/02 to 1907/08 places Mehmet Şükrü in the same post, communications official (Muhabere Memuru), in Istanbul, the birthplace.
The salary went from 50 kuruş a month in 1901/02 to 160 in 1905/06, the peak, as Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul, when 8 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over seven years the salaries add up to 10,800 kuruş, 28 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1907/08.
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.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02 | 50 | 500 | 400 | 0% |
| 1902/03 | 100 | 500 | 380 | 1% |
| 1903/04 | 120 | 475 | 350 | 3% |
| 1904/05 | 150 | 450 | 350 | 5% |
| 1905/06 | 160 | 475 | 330 | 8% |
| 1906/07 | 160 | 450 | 300 | 9% |
| 1907/08 | 160 | 300 | 250 | 16% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1898/99AH 1316 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 50first-salary field |
| 1901 to 1908AH 1319 to 1325 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 50 to 160 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1880/81 (AH 1298)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Telgraf Memuru
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 3 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1898/99 (AH 1316)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 50
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 925 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 746th highest salary.
- Hüseyin Hasip Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 20,000 kuruş
- Suleyman Resat Bey7 shared years; highest salary 7,000 kuruş
- Hasan Ferit Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
- Melkok Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
- Mustafa İhsan Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 1,555 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 1,467th highest salary.
- Mustafa Fazıl Bey7 shared years; highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Mahmut Nedim Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 1,200 kuruş
- Mustafa Nuri Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 900 kuruş
- Besim Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
- Mehmet Mirat Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
Same school
Of the 3,206 officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi among their schools, 3,200 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 2,917th highest salary of them.
- Abdülaziz Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 900 kuruş
- Abdülkerim Hüsnü Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 540 kuruş
- Abdullah Kamil Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Abdullatif Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 700 kuruş
- Abdurrahman Hilmi Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 500 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 1,999 officials born in Istanbul, 1,997 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 1,712th highest salary of them.
- Abdullah Kamil Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Ahmet Celal Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 800 kuruş
- Ahmet Cemal Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmet İzzet Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Ahmet Kemal Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 300 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 131 officials whose first annual entry is for 1901/02 (AH 1319), Mehmet Şükrü Efendi had the 112th highest salary.
- Mehmed Nuri Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 200 kuruş
- Süleyman Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 70 kuruş
- ALİ HİKMET EFENDİfirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 700 kuruş
- İbrahim Edhem Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 100 kuruş
- İbrahim Seyfi Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 220 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (7)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 50 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 120 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 160 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 160 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 160 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 151-27-49 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (14)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Şükrü Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1298 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | telgraf memuru | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 3 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1316 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1898 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | istanbul | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 50 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 5 annual entries of 7 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.
Subjects
- Mehmet Şükrü Efendi
- Communications official (Muhabere Memuru)
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Rüşdiye school (Rüşdiye Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Biography of an Ottoman official (Osmanlı memurunun biyografisi)
- Career and pay (memuriyet ve maaş)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)