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Mehmet Atıf 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 Atıf Efendi was born in Panaloka. Work began in 1903/04 (AH 1321), on a first salary of 80 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1903/04, with Mehmet Atıf as Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusu and no place named.

Pay rose from 80 kuruş a month in 1903/04 to a peak of 150 in 1907/08, when one in ten paid officials earned less. Over five years the salaries add up to 5,640 kuruş, 21 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1907/08.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
0501001501903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 1325150 kuruşGaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusu
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 1325This 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 Mehmet Atıf Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1903/04804053%
1904/05804004%
1905/06804304%
1906/07804504%
1907/0815046010%

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 Mehmet Atıf Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1903/04AH 1321First work80first-salary field
1903 to 1908AH 1321 to 1325Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusu
7 entries
YearSalary
1903/0480
1904/0580
1905/0680
1906/0780
1907/0880
1907/08130
1907/08150
80 to 150

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Panaloka

First work

Year
1903/04 (AH 1321)

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.

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 142 officials whose first annual entry is for 1903/04 (AH 1321), 123 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Atıf Efendi had the 106th highest salary of them.

All 142 officials whose first annual entry is for 1903/04 (AH 1321)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Atıf Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1903/04AH 1321Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1904/05AH 1322Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1905/06AH 1323Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1906/07AH 1324Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1907/08AH 1325Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe80Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1907/08AH 1325Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe130Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1907/08AH 1325Gaz depoları gümrüğü kolcusuPaşabahçe150Affiliation 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 Mehmet Atıf 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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