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Rıfat Efendi

Born 1879/80 (AH 1297) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1900 to 1910 (AH 1318 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00183_00061

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

1ÇemişgezekIstanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Çemişgezek

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 2 recorded years

    Menmiş

    AH entries: 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Menmiş

    1. Aşar kolcusu

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

    2. Dördüncü kol merkez muharriri (İstifa)

      Calculated age 22

      Recorded service ending

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Başvarnik / Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Başvarnik

    1. Başvarnik

      Nahiye katibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. Çemişgezek

      Tetkik-i bekaya katibi

      Calculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Çemişgezek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tetkik-i bekaya katibi

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tetkik-i bekaya katibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 24

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1908/09 (AH 1326) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. On dokuzuncu belediye dairesi çavuşu

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

    2. On dokuzuncu belediye dairesi muhasebe kalemi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

4 entries 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
1900/01 (AH 1318)300400140 to 1,50029.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)250400150 to 1,52021.8%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)150400150 to 1,5009.0%1627
1908/09 (AH 1326)300400150 to 2,00032.3%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)500600200 to 2,00041.1%1088

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. 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)
  2. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  3. Menmiş2
    1900 to 1902 (AH 1318 to 1319)
  4. Başvarnik1
    1902/03 (AH 1320)

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. Menmiş250 to 300
  2. Başvarnik150

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. 1900 to 1902 (AH 1318 to 1319)
  2. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  3. 1902 to 1904 (AH 1320 to 1321)
  4. 1900/01 (AH 1318)
  5. 1901/02 (AH 1319)
  6. 1900/01 (AH 1318)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Şehadetname; banka muamelatına vukuf [1]

Schooling Mahallî ibtidai ve rüşdiye [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 çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 370, 371, 372

    430 DH_SAİDd_____00183_00061

Read the original source accounts · 22 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 · 6 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 19 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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