Mehmet 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 Efendi was born in Bandırma in 1877/78 (AH 1294); the father's occupation was "Saatçi". Work began in Bandırma in 1896/97, at about 19. From the first annual entry, for 1896/97, to 1903/04, every annual entry places Mehmet in the same post, Nüfus Kalemi mülazımı, in Bandırma, the birthplace.
The salary went from 62.5 kuruş a month in 1896/97 to 190 in 1903/04, the peak, in Bandırma, when 15 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, six years of salary come to 9,330 kuruş, 31 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The last annual entry is for 1903/04.
Career and salary#
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
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97 | 62.5 | 450 | 300 | 2% | |
| 1898/99 | 125 | 400 | 350 | 7% | |
| 1899/1900 | 125 | 400 | 300 | 7% | |
| 1900/01 | 125 | 400 | 300 | 8% | |
| 1901/02 | 150 | 400 | 300 | 9% | |
| 1903/04 | 190 | 405 | 300 | 15% |
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.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97AH 1314 | First work | Bandırma | |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Nüfus Kalemi mülazımı | Bandırma | 62.5 |
| No annual entry: 1897/98 (AH 1315) | |||
| 1898 to 1902AH 1316 to 1319 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 125 to 150 |
| No annual entry: 1902/03 (AH 1320) | |||
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 190 |
Record#
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 place, same years
Of the 20 officials with entries in Bandırma in the same years, 18 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Efendi had the 17th highest salary of them.
- Abdullah Agah Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mehmet Behçet Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 250 kuruş
- Yorgi Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- İBRAHİM FEHMİ EFENDİ3 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- İsmail Hakkı Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 250 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 41 officials born in Bandırma, 37 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Efendi had the 33rd highest salary of them.
- Yorgi Efendiborn 1877/78 (AH 1294); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Behçet Efendiborn 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Abdülkadir Efendiborn 1874/75 (AH 1291); highest salary 250 kuruş
- İbrahim Fikri Efendiborn 1874/75 (AH 1291); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Ömer Lütfi Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 800 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 186 officials whose first annual entry is for 1896/97 (AH 1314), 165 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Efendi had the 150th highest salary of them.
- Mehmet Behçet Efendifirst entry in Bandırma; highest salary 250 kuruş
- Abdullah Agah Efendifirst entry in Bandırma; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Adviye Hanımfirst entry in Denizli; highest salary 300 kuruş
- BEKĠR TEVFĠK EFENDĠfirst entry in Chios (Sakız); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Bekir Tevfik Efendifirst entry in Chios (Sakız); highest salary 300 kuruş
All 186 officials whose first annual entry is for 1896/97 (AH 1314)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Nüfus Kalemi mülazımı | Bandırma | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi vekili | Bandırma | 62.5 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 125 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 125 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 125 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 125 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 100 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 120 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 150 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Nüfus ikinci kâtibi | Bandırma | 190 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records |
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.
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|
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.
- Origin of the record: Source collection.
Subjects
- List of Ottoman officials (Osmanlı memurları listesi)
- Collective biography (kolektif biyografi)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)