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Osman Recai 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

Osman Recai Efendi was born in Erzincan, into the İslam community, and the father's occupation was "demirci". Work began in 1893/94 (AH 1311), on a first salary of 80 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1893/94, with Osman Recai as mülazım (yoklama kısmı) and no place named.

Pay rose from 80 kuruş a month in 1893/94 to a peak of 320 in 1894/95, when 37 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1894/95.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003004001893/94AH 13111894/95AH 1312320 kuruşmülazım (yoklama kısmı)
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001893/94AH 13111894/95AH 1312This officialMedian, all officials

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 Osman Recai Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1893/94804003%
1894/9532040037%

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 Osman Recai Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1893/94AH 1311First work80first-salary field
1893 to 1895AH 1311 to 1312mülazım (yoklama kısmı)
4 entries
YearSalary
1893/9480
1894/9580
1894/95
1894/95320
80 to 320

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Erzincan
Community
İslam
Father's occupation
demirci

First work

Year
1893/94 (AH 1311)

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 birthplace

Of the 188 officials born in Erzincan, 168 have a recorded salary; Osman Recai Efendi had the 119th highest salary of them.

The page of Erzincan, with the 188 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 196 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311), 178 have a recorded salary; Osman Recai Efendi had the 119th highest salary of them.

All 196 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Osman Recai Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1893/94AH 1311mülazım (yoklama kısmı)Dördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun Erkan-ı Harbiye Dairesi ikinci şube80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records176 BOA, DH. SAİD, 27/121
1894/95AH 1312mülazım (yoklama kısmı)Dördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun Erkan-ı Harbiye Dairesi ikinci şube80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records176 BOA, DH. SAİD, 27/121
1894/95AH 1312mülazım (yoklama kısmı) (Nakil)Dördüncü Ordu-yu Hümayun Erkan-ı Harbiye Dairesi ikinci şubeAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records176 BOA, DH. SAİD, 27/121
1894/95AH 1312kâtip (dördüncü sınıf)Dördüncü Ordu Levazım Dairesi yedinci şube320Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records176 BOA, DH. SAİD, 27/121
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 Osman Recai 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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