Mehmed Şevki Bey
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
Mehmed Şevki Bey was born in Kibris. Work began in 1876/77 (AH 1293). The annual lists begin in 1876/77, with Mehmed Şevki as Mülazım-ı sani and no place named. For 1879 to 1881 the lists have no entry. Mehmed Şevki then moved to Tripoli (Trablusgarp) from 1881 to 1883, with a rise to Trablusgarp görevi in 1881/82. Alongside, the lists for 1882 to 1884 give a second post, in a post with no place named as Nakil. The farthest post, Tripoli, lay about 1,900 km from Kibris, and fewer than 5 per cent of the 5,339 officials with a known birthplace and place of service served as far from the birthplace.
Pay rose from 300 kuruş a month in 1878/79 to a peak of 2,500 in 1881/82, in Tripoli, when 94 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over three years the salaries add up to 63,600 kuruş, 4.4 times what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1883/84.
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.
İkinci Ordu 1. Alay 1. Tabur 7. Bölük as worded, no place record
1876 to 1879 (AH 1293 to 1296)
Mülazım-ı sani
entries in 4 years
Hassa Ordusu 8. Alay 3. Tabur as worded, no place record
1878/79 (AH 1296)
300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)
No annual entry for 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298) before it.
Trablusgarp görevi
2,500 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years
Place not recorded
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Nakil
entries in 1 year
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878/79 | 300 | 400 | 27% | ||
| 1881/82 | 2,500 | 400 | 94% | ||
| 1882/83 | 2,500 | 400 | 2,000 | 94% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1876/77AH 1293 | First work | ||
| 1876 to 1879AH 1293 to 1296 | Mülazım-ı sani | ||
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Yuzbasi | 300 | |
| No annual entry: 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298) | |||
| 1881 to 1883AH 1299 to 1300 | Trablusgarp görevi | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 2,500 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Nakil | ||
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Binbasi | ||
Record#
Personal
- Birthplace
- Kibris
First work
- Year
- 1876/77 (AH 1293)
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 5 officials with entries in Tripoli (Trablusgarp) in the same years, Mehmed Şevki Bey had the 3rd highest salary.
- Hüsameddin Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 640 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 550 kuruş
- Hacı Mehmet Tevfik Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 3,000 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 59 officials born in Kibris, 9 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Şevki Bey had the 4th highest salary of them.
- İsmail Sükûti Efendiborn 1814/15 (AH 1230); no salary recorded
- Fransuva Zebab Efendiborn 1836/37 (AH 1252); no salary recorded
- Ahmed Tevfik Efendiborn 1842/43 (AH 1258); no salary recorded
- Fedon Beyborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); no salary recorded
- Mehmed Ali Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); no salary recorded
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 185 officials whose first annual entry is for 1876/77 (AH 1293), 168 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Şevki Bey had the 5th highest salary of them.
- Muhiddin Beyfirst annual entry 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 1,215 kuruş
- Mahmud Celaleddin Efendifirst annual entry 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Ömer Lütfi Efendifirst annual entry 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 800 kuruş
- Ömer Lütfi Efendifirst annual entry 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 864 kuruş
- Hasan Efendifirst annual entry 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 2,500 kuruş
All 185 officials whose first annual entry is for 1876/77 (AH 1293)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876/77AH 1293 | Mülazım-ı sani | İkinci Ordu 1. Alay 1. Tabur 7. Bölük | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | |
| 1877/78AH 1294 | Mülazım-ı sani | İkinci Ordu 1. Alay 1. Tabur 7. Bölük | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | |
| 1877/78AH 1294 | Mülazım-ı evvel | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | ||
| 1878AH 1295 | Mülazım-ı evvel | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | ||
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Mülazım-ı evvel | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | ||
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Mülazım-ı evvel | Hassa Ordusu 4. Alay 4. Bölük | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | |
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Yuzbasi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | ||
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Yuzbasi | Hassa Ordusu 8. Alay 3. Tabur | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Trablusgarp görevi | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 2,500 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Trablusgarp görevi | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 2,500 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Nakil | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 | ||
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Binbasi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1015 |
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)