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Mehmet Şevki 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

Mehmet Şevki Efendi was born in Sivas in 1860/61 (AH 1277) into the İslam community. The first salary was 400 kuruş a month. The annual lists begin in 1894/95, with Mehmet Şevki as muvakkat memur and no place named. For 1895 to 1897 the lists have no entry. In place of a title the lists give Infisal for 1897/98.

Pay rose from 400 kuruş a month in 1894/95 to a peak of 600 in 1897/98, when 70 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1897/98.

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.

  1. Sivas

    Born 1860/61 (AH 1277)

  2. Manastıraltı Memlehası as worded, no place record

    1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)

    muvakkat memur 1894/95 (AH 1312); Infisal (a note on status, not a job) 1897/98 (AH 1315)

    400 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

  3. Cerit Memlehası as worded, no place record

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    No annual entry for 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314) before it.

    daimi memleha memuru

    600 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry02004006001894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 1315600 kuruşmuvakkat memurdaimi memleha memuru
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 1315This 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 Mehmet Şevki Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1894/9540040044%
1897/9860040070%

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 Mehmet Şevki Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First work400first-salary field
1894/95AH 1312muvakkat memur400
No annual entry: 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
1897/98AH 1315Infisala note on status, not a job
1897/98AH 1315daimi memleha memuru600

Record

Personal

Born
1860/61 (AH 1277)
Birthplace
Sivas
Community
İslam

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 399 officials born in Sivas, 282 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şevki Efendi had the 69th highest salary of them.

The page of Sivas, with the 399 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 225 officials whose first annual entry is for 1894/95 (AH 1312), 198 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şevki Efendi had the 47th highest salary of them.

All 225 officials whose first annual entry is for 1894/95 (AH 1312)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Şevki Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1894/95AH 1312muvakkat memurManastıraltı Memlehası400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records503 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315
1897/98AH 1315InfisalAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records503 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315
1897/98AH 1315daimi memleha memuruCerit Memlehası600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records503 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00117,s.315
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 Mehmet Şevki 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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