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MEHMED RA İF EFEND İ

Born Year not recorded · Muğla · Dated entries 1900 to 1913 (AH 1318 to 1331)

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

MarmarisBodrumKöyceğizMuğla
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Menteşe Sancağı

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

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Menteşe Sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Orman Ondalık Memuru

  2. 2

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Menteşe Sancağı / Marmaris

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. Menteşe Sancağı

      Orman Ondalık Memuru (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

    2. Menteşe Sancağı

      Orman Ondalık Memuru

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 2 recorded years

    Menteşe Sancağı / Bodrum

    AH entries: 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. Menteşe Sancağı

      Orman Ondalık Memuru (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

    2. Menteşe Sancağı

      Orman Ondalık Memuru

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Menteşe Sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. Orman Ondalık Memuru (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

  5. 5

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Köyceğiz / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Köyceğiz

      Orman Tezkere Muharriri

      400 kuruş

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

  6. 6

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Menteşe Sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. Ondalık Memuru (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

  7. 7

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Dalyan, Köyceğiz

    Not yet located on the map: Dalyan, Köyceğiz

    1. Orman ve Maadin Muayene ve Cibayet Memuru

      400 kuruş

  8. 8

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Dalyan, Köyceğiz / Yüksekkum, Köyceğiz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Dalyan, Köyceğiz; Yüksekkum, Köyceğiz

    1. Dalyan, Köyceğiz

      Orman ve Maadin Muayene ve Cibayet Memuru

      400 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Yüksekkum, Köyceğiz

      Cibayet Memuru

      400 kuruş

  9. 9

    1912/13 (AH 1331)

    Menteşe Sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Menteşe Sancağı

    1. Cephane Müdürü (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

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
1903/04 (AH 1321)400405150 to 1,45043.1%1578
1906/07 (AH 1324)400450150 to 1,52541.1%1371
1910/11 (AH 1328)400500200 to 2,00031.3%732
1911 (AH 1329)400600250 to 2,50026.4%402

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. Menteşe Sancağı3
    1900 to 1905 (AH 1318 to 1322)
  2. Dalyan, Köyceğiz2
    1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  3. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  4. 1906/07 (AH 1324)
  5. 1901/02 (AH 1319)
  6. Yüksekkum, Köyceğiz1
    1911 (AH 1329)

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. Dalyan, Köyceğiz400
  2. Yüksekkum, Köyceğiz400

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 1905 (AH 1318 to 1322)
  2. 1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  3. 1911 (AH 1329)
  4. 1901/02 (AH 1319)
  5. 1906/07 (AH 1324)
  6. 1903/04 (AH 1321)

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 Muğla Mekteb-i İdadi-i Mülkiyesi [source]

Qualification Bilgi ve becerisi vazifesini yerine getirmeye yeterli (Menteşe Livası Mutasarrıflığı) [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Osmanlı döneminde Muğlalı devlet memurları (1879-1909)

    SERDAL SOYLUER · 2006 · Pages 80, 81, 82

Read the original source accounts · 20 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 · 10 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 17 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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