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Mehmed Faik Efendi

Born 1857/58 (AH 1274) · Birecik · Dated entries 1873 to 1882 (AH 1290 to 1299)

Archival reference DH.SAID 1/352

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1873/74 (AH 1290): Arazi kâtibi, Birecik, 300 kuruş1873/74 (AH 1290): Arazi kâtibi (İnfisal), Birecik1873/74 (AH 1290): Şeriyye naibliği memuru, Birecik1878/79 (AH 1296): Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni, Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi, 300 kuruş1879/80 (AH 1297): Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni, Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi, 300 kuruş1880/81 (AH 1298): Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni, Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi, 300 kuruş1881/82 (AH 1299): Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni, Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi, 300 kuruş1881/82 (AH 1299): Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni (İnfisal), Odabaşı Rüşdiye MektebiAH 1290AH 1299
Places and reading notes
  • Birecik
  • Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi

5 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 3 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.

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

Stage 1 of 3 · Birecik

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1857/58 (AH 1274)

    Birecik

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Birecik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Arazi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 16

    3. Arazi kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 16

    4. Şeriyye naibliği memuru

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 4 recorded years

    Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi

    AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi

    1. Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    3. Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    4. Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    5. Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 25

4 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
1873/74 (AH 1290)300405130 to 2,20032.6%805
1878/79 (AH 1296)300400150 to 2,00027.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01503001873/74AH 12901878AH 12951881/82AH 12991873/74 (AH 1290) · 300 kuruş1878/79 (AH 1296) · 300 kuruş1879/80 (AH 1297) · 300 kuruş1880/81 (AH 1298) · 300 kuruş1881/82 (AH 1299) · 300 kuruş

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. Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi4
    1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
  2. 1873/74 (AH 1290)

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. Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi300

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. 1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
  2. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
  3. 1873/74 (AH 1290)

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; Mekteb-i Mülkiye mezunu [1]

Schooling Birecik Rüşdiye Mektebi; medrese; Darülmuallimin; Mekteb-i Mülkiye [source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Birecik [source]
Birth province
Halep [source]
Birth year
1857/58 (AH 1274) [source]
Archive references
DH.SAID 1/352 [1]

Education and languages

Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Mekteb-i Mülkiye mezunu [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Birecik Rüşdiye Mektebi; medrese; Darülmuallimin; Mekteb-i Mülkiye [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
15 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Birecik [source]
First-salary field
300 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1873/74 (AH 1290) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Birecikli devlet memurları

    ZEYNEP BAYINDIR · 2022 · Pages 60, 61

    DH.SAID 1/352

Read the original source accounts · 12 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 · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 8 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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