Mehmed Faik 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
Mehmed Faik Efendi was born in Birecik in 1857/58 (AH 1274). At about 16, in 1873/74, Mehmed Faik began work in Birecik, on a first salary of 300 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1873/74, with Mehmed Faik as Arazi kâtibi in Birecik, the birthplace. For 1874 to 1878 the lists have no entry. The last entries, from 1878 to 1882, name Mehmed Faik as Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni, with no place.
The salary never rose above the first in the lists, 300 kuruş a month in 1873/74, in Birecik, when one in three paid officials earned less. In all, five years of salary come to 18,000 kuruş, 74 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1881/82.
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.
Born 1857/58 (AH 1274); First work 1873/74 (AH 1290); 1873/74 (AH 1290)
Arazi kâtibi
300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi as worded, no place record
1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
No annual entry for 1874 to 1878 (AH 1291 to 1295) before it.
Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni
300 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1873/74 | 300 | 405 | 550 | 32% | |
| 1878/79 | 300 | 400 | 27% | ||
| 1879/80 | 300 | 400 | 27% | ||
| 1880/81 | 300 | 400 | 28% | ||
| 1881/82 | 300 | 400 | 28% |
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.
Record#
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 Birecik in the same years, Mehmed Faik Efendi had the lowest salary.
- Kasım Sıdkı Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 750 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 13 officials born in Birecik, 5 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Faik Efendi had the 3rd highest salary of them.
- Abdülhamid Efendiborn 1857/58 (AH 1274); no salary recorded
- Bekir Sıdkı Efendi (DH.SAID 132/124)born 1863/64 (AH 1280); no salary recorded
- Ahmed Nazif Efendiborn 1846/47 (AH 1263); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Abraham Efendiborn 1869/70 (AH 1286); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Ahmet Nevres Efendiborn 1874/75 (AH 1291); no salary recorded
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 130 officials whose first annual entry is for 1873/74 (AH 1290), 113 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Faik Efendi had the 97th highest salary of them.
- Abdülkadir Efendifirst annual entry 1873/74 (AH 1290); highest salary 650 kuruş
- Ahmed İzzet Efendifirst entry in Sivas; highest salary 400 kuruş
- ALEKO ARİSTARKİ BEYfirst annual entry 1873/74 (AH 1290); no salary recorded
- Hasan Tahsin Efendifirst annual entry 1873/74 (AH 1290); highest salary 1,420 kuruş
- Hasan Tahsin Efendifirst entry in Edirne; highest salary 600 kuruş
All 130 officials whose first annual entry is for 1873/74 (AH 1290)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1873/74AH 1290 | Arazi kâtibi | Birecik | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 |
| 1873/74AH 1290 | Arazi kâtibi (İnfisal) | Birecik | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 | |
| 1873/74AH 1290 | Şeriyye naibliği memuru | Birecik | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 | |
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni | Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni | Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni | Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni | Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Rüşdiye matematik öğretmeni (İnfisal) | Odabaşı Rüşdiye Mektebi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH.SAID 1/352 |
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 |
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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)