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Mehmed 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 Efendi was born in Pristina (Priştine) in 1861/62 (AH 1278). Work began in Pristina in 1876/77, at about 15. Every annual entry from 1876/77 to 1886/87 places Mehmed in the same post, Tapu Kalemi stajyeri, in Pristina, the birthplace.

The salary went from 230 kuruş a month in 1876/77 to 380 in 1886/87, the peak, in Pristina, when 44 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, nine years of salary come to 23,112 kuruş, 53 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The last annual entry is for 1886/87.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003004001876/77AH 12931877/78AH 12941878AH 12951878/79AH 12961879/80AH 12971880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 1304380 kuruşTapu Kalemi stajyeri
Salary against the medians of the same year
1002005001876/77AH 12931877/78AH 12941878AH 12951878/79AH 12961879/80AH 12971880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 1304This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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 Mehmed Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1876/7723042037020%
1879/8018840030010%
1880/8118840030011%
1881/8218840028512%
1882/83188400237.511%
1883/8418840020011%
1884/8518840025011%
1885/8618840025012%
1886/8738040030044%

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 Mehmed Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1876/77AH 1293First workPristina (Priştine)
1876 to 1887AH 1293 to 1304Tapu Kalemi stajyeri
21 entries
YearSalary
1876/77
1876/77
1876/77230
1876/77
1876/77
1877/78
1877/78
1877/78
1877/78
1878
1878/79
1879/80
1879/80188
1880/81188
1881/82188
1882/83188
1883/84188
1884/85188
1885/86188
1886/87188
1886/87380
Pristina (Priştine)380

Record

Personal

Born
1861/62 (AH 1278)

First work

Year
1876/77 (AH 1293)

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 27 officials with entries in Pristina (Priştine) in the same years, 25 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 15th highest salary of them.

All 80 officials with entries in Pristina (Priştine)

Same birthplace

Of the 91 officials born in Pristina (Priştine), 84 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 46th highest salary of them.

The page of Pristina (Priştine), with the 91 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 185 officials whose first annual entry is for 1876/77 (AH 1293), 168 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 134th highest salary of them.

All 185 officials whose first annual entry is for 1876/77 (AH 1293)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1876/77AH 1293Tapu Kalemi stajyeriPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1876/77AH 1293Tapu Kalemi stajyeri (Nakil)Pristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1876/77AH 1293Geçici aşar kâtibiPristina (Priştine)230Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1876/77AH 1293Geçici aşar kâtibi (İnfisal)Pristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1876/77AH 1293Tapu Kalemi stajyeriPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1877/78AH 1294Tapu Kalemi stajyeriPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1877/78AH 1294Tapu Kalemi stajyeri (Görevin sona ermesi)Pristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1877/78AH 1294Tapu kâtibiPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1877/78AH 1294Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1878AH 1295Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1878/79AH 1296Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1879/80AH 1297Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1879/80AH 1297Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1880/81AH 1298Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1881/82AH 1299Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1882/83AH 1300Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1883/84AH 1301Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1884/85AH 1302Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1885/86AH 1303Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1886/87AH 1304Tapu Kalemi ikinci kâtibiPristina (Priştine)188Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
1886/87AH 1304Tapu Kalemi başkâtibiPristina (Priştine)380Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH. SAİD. d, 8-671.
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 Mehmed Efendi with their sources
FieldRecorded valueSource
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.

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