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Sun’ullah Galib 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

Sun’ullah Galib Efendi was born in Malatya in 1836/37 (AH 1252). The first salary was 0 kuruş a month. The annual lists begin in 1882/83, with Sun’ullah Galib as Ticaret ve Ziraat ve Sanayi Odası azalığı ve başkanlığı (fahri) (Nakil) and no place named. The lists have no entry for 1883 to 1889.

The salary went from 1,500 kuruş a month in 1882/83 to 5,400 in 1894/95, the peak, when 98 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over six years the salaries add up to 226,800 kuruş, 7.9 times what an official on the median salary earned. On average the pay stood in the top 4.7 per cent of each year's paid officials; only 45 of the 4,381 officials paid for five years or more stood as high. The final annual entry is for 1894/95.

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.

  1. Malatya

    Born 1836/37 (AH 1252); First work here

  2. Emniyet Sandığı as worded, no place record

    1882 to 1895 (AH 1300 to 1312)

    Ticaret ve Ziraat ve Sanayi Odası azalığı ve başkanlığı (fahri) (Nakil) 1882/83 (AH 1300); Emniyet Sandığı müdür muavini (ilave memuriyet) 1889/90 (AH 1307); Emniyet Sandığı sandık emini 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)

    1,500 to 5,400 kuruş a month; entries in 6 years

    No annual entry for 1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306) or 1890/91 (AH 1308).

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entryno entry02,0004,0006,0001882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13125,400 kuruşEmniyet Sandığı sandık emini
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0002,0005,00010,0001882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 1312This officialMedian, all officials

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
Salary of Sun’ullah Galib Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1882/831,50040090%
1889/902,00040092%
1891/923,00040096%
1892/933,00040096%
1893/944,00040097%
1894/955,40040098%

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.

Career of Sun’ullah Galib Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workMalatya0first-salary field
1882/83AH 1300Ticaret ve Ziraat ve Sanayi Odası azalığı ve başkanlığı (fahri) (Nakil)
2 entries
YearSalary
1882/83
1882/831,500
1,500
No annual entry: 1883 to 1889 (AH 1301 to 1306)
1889/90AH 1307Emniyet Sandığı müdür muavini (ilave memuriyet)2,000
No annual entry: 1890/91 (AH 1308)
1891 to 1895AH 1309 to 1312Emniyet Sandığı sandık emini
6 entries
YearSalary
1891/923,000
1892/933,000
1893/943,000
1893/944,000
1894/954,000
1894/955,400
3,000 to 5,400

Record

Personal

Born
1836/37 (AH 1252)
Birthplace
Malatya

First work

Place
Malatya

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 birthplace

Of the 140 officials born in Malatya, 132 have a recorded salary; Sun’ullah Galib Efendi had the highest salary of them.

The page of Malatya, with the 140 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 237 officials whose first annual entry is for 1882/83 (AH 1300), 208 have a recorded salary; Sun’ullah Galib Efendi had the 4th highest salary of them.

All 237 officials whose first annual entry is for 1882/83 (AH 1300)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Sun’ullah Galib Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1882/83AH 1300Ticaret ve Ziraat ve Sanayi Odası azalığı ve başkanlığı (fahri) (Nakil)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1882/83AH 1300Emniyet Sandığı fürûht memuruEmniyet Sandığı1,500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1889/90AH 1307Emniyet Sandığı müdür muavini (ilave memuriyet)Emniyet Sandığı2,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1891/92AH 1309Emniyet Sandığı sandık eminiEmniyet Sandığı3,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1892/93AH 1310Emniyet Sandığı sandık eminiEmniyet Sandığı3,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1893/94AH 1311Emniyet Sandığı sandık eminiEmniyet Sandığı3,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1893/94AH 1311Emniyet Sandığı sandık eminiEmniyet Sandığı4,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1894/95AH 1312Emniyet Sandığı sandık eminiEmniyet Sandığı4,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1894/95AH 1312Emniyet Sandığı sandık eminliği müdürüEmniyet Sandığı5,400Affiliation not recordedSelected 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.
Recorded values of Sun’ullah Galib Efendi with their sources
FieldRecorded valueSource
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.

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