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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Mehmet Sadık Efendi

Born 1831/32 (AH 1247) · Dagistan · Dated entries 1867 to 1896 (AH 1284 to 1313)

Languages Russian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 35/99

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 7 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1Dagistan
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Dagistan

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

6 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1831/32 (AH 1247)

    Dagistan

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Maliye veznedarlığı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Maliye veznedarlığı

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 37

    2. Maliye veznedarı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 37

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285) · 10 recorded years

    Maliye veznedarlığı

    AH entries: 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Maliye veznedarlığı

    1. Maliye veznedarı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Maliye veznedarı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Maliye veznedarlığı / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Maliye veznedarlığı; Location not recorded

    1. Maliye veznedarlığı

      Maliye veznedarı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 48

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Askerlik nedeniyle ara

      Calculated age 48

  5. 5

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 2 recorded years

    Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı

    AH entries: 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı

    1. Hazine-i Celile veznedarı

      150 kuruşCalculated age 57

    2. Hazine-i Celile veznedarı

      100 kuruşCalculated age 58

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı / Place not recorded / Kupon İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı; Location not recorded; Kupon İdaresi

    1. Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı

      Hazine-i Celile veznedarı

      100 kuruşCalculated age 59

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kupon İdaresi

      Kupon İdaresi memuru

      100 kuruşCalculated age 59

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 5 recorded years

    Kupon İdaresi Tadad ve Muayene Kalemi

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kupon İdaresi Tadad ve Muayene Kalemi

    1. Tadad ve Muayene Kalemi muaddidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 62

    2. Tadad ve Muayene Kalemi muaddidi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 66

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1867/68 (AH 1284)150458150 to 2,5008.1%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)150475150 to 3,0008.1%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)150400150 to 2,2509.4%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)150400150 to 2,0009.3%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)150420.5125 to 2,37511.0%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)150450140 to 2,35010.8%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)150405130 to 2,20011.7%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)150450150 to 1,8009.3%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)150450150 to 2,0009.1%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)150420150 to 2,00010.0%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)150450150 to 1,8009.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)150450150 to 2,0009.5%1196
1886/87 (AH 1304)150400150 to 1,5009.2%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)100400150 to 1,5005.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)100400135 to 1,5005.6%1797
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)350400140 to 1,40038.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)350400140 to 1,50039.7%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Maliye veznedarlığı12
    1867 to 1878 (AH 1284 to 1295)
  2. Kupon İdaresi Tadad ve Muayene Kalemi5
    1891 to 1896 (AH 1309 to 1313)
  3. Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı3
    1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  4. Kupon İdaresi1
    1888/89 (AH 1306)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Maliye veznedarlığı150
  2. Kupon İdaresi Tadad ve Muayene Kalemi250 to 400
  3. Hazine-i Celile veznedarlığı100 to 150
  4. Kupon İdaresi100

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1867 to 1878 (AH 1284 to 1295)
  2. 1891 to 1896 (AH 1309 to 1313)
  3. 1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306)
  4. 1888/89 (AH 1306)
  5. 1878 (AH 1295)
  6. 1888/89 (AH 1306)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Dağıstanlılar

    SAİT ARAS · 2023 · Pages 108, 109

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 35/99

Read the original source accounts · 28 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 20 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 27 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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