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İsmail Kemal 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

İsmail Kemal Efendi was born in Tokat in 1887/88 (AH 1305). Every annual entry from 1903/04 to 1911 places İsmail Kemal in the same post, Tahrirat Dairesi ikinci mübeyyizi, in Tokat, the birthplace.

Pay rose from 20 kuruş a month in 1903/04 to a peak of 200 in 1907/08, in Tokat, when 16 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, seven years of salary come to 13,440 kuruş, 32 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The last annual entry is for 1911.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry0501001502001903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 13251908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13281911AH 1329200 kuruşTahrirat Dairesi ikinci mübeyyiziTahrirat Dairesi başkâtibi
Salary against the medians of the same year
20501002005001,0001903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 13251908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13281911AH 1329This 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 İsmail Kemal Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1903/04204053000%
1905/061004303005%
1907/0820046040016%
1908/0920040025012%
1909/102006005007%
1910/112005003506%
19112006005005%

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 İsmail Kemal Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workTokat
1903 to 1906AH 1321 to 1323Tahrirat Dairesi ikinci mübeyyizi
3 entries
YearSalary
1903/0420
1904/05
1905/06100
Tokat20 to 100
No annual entry: 1906/07 (AH 1324)
1907 to 1911AH 1325 to 1329Tahrirat Dairesi başkâtibi
6 entries
YearSalary
1907/08200
1908/09200
1909/10200
1910/11200
1911200
1911
Tokat200

Record

Personal

Born
1887/88 (AH 1305)
Birthplace
Tokat

First work

Place
Tokat

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 20 officials with entries in Tokat in the same years, İsmail Kemal Efendi had the 16th highest salary.

All 84 officials with entries in Tokat

Same birthplace

Of the 123 officials born in Tokat, 117 have a recorded salary; İsmail Kemal Efendi had the 97th highest salary of them.

The page of Tokat, with the 123 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 142 officials whose first annual entry is for 1903/04 (AH 1321), 123 have a recorded salary; İsmail Kemal Efendi had the 88th highest salary of them.

All 142 officials whose first annual entry is for 1903/04 (AH 1321)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of İsmail Kemal Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1903/04AH 1321Tahrirat Dairesi ikinci mübeyyiziTokat20Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1904/05AH 1322Tahrirat Dairesi birinci mübeyyiziTokatAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1905/06AH 1323Tahrirat Dairesi ikinci müsevvidiTokat100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1907/08AH 1325Tahrirat Dairesi başkâtibiTokat200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1908/09AH 1326Tahrirat Dairesi başkâtibiTokat200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1909/10AH 1327Tahrirat Dairesi başkâtibiTokat200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1910/11AH 1328Tahrirat Dairesi başkâtibiTokat200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1911AH 1329Tahrirat Dairesi başkâtibiTokat200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
1911AH 1329Sancak İdare Meclisi başkâtibiTokatAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD., No: 188, s. 218
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 İsmail Kemal 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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