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Salih Sıtkı 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

Salih Sıtkı Efendi was born in Giresun; the father was a merchant (tüccar). The first annual entry, for 1903/04 (AH 1321), names Salih Sıtkı as Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuru, with no place.

Pay rose from 400 kuruş a month in 1903/04 to a peak of 500 in 1906/07, as a communications official (Muhabere Memuru), when 51 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1906/07.

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. Yozgat Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi as worded, no place record

    1903 to 1907 (AH 1321 to 1324)

    Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuru

    400 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years

  2. Küplü Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi as worded, no place record

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Muhabere Memuru

    500 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
02004006001903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 1324500 kuruşMuhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuruMuhabere Memuru
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 1324This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same title

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 Salih Sıtkı Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1903/0440040543%
1906/0750045038051%

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 Salih Sıtkı Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1903 to 1907AH 1321 to 1324Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuru
5 entries
YearSalary
1903/04400
1904/05
1905/06
1905/06
1906/07
400
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere Memuru500

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Giresun
Father's occupation
Tüccar

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 job title, same years

Of the 36 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, Salih Sıtkı Efendi had the 6th highest salary.

All 232 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru

Same birthplace

Of the 72 officials born in Giresun, 67 have a recorded salary; Salih Sıtkı Efendi had the 22nd highest salary of them.

The page of Giresun, with the 72 officials born there

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; Salih Sıtkı Efendi had the 34th 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 Salih Sıtkı Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1903/04AH 1321Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuruYozgat Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353; 203 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353.
1904/05AH 1322Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuruYozgat Telgraf ve Posta MerkeziAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353; 203 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353.
1905/06AH 1323Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuruYozgat Telgraf ve Posta MerkeziAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353; 203 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353.
1905/06AH 1323Telgraf ve Posta Müdür VekiliEskişehir Telgraf ve Posta MüdürlüğüAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353; 203 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353.
1906/07AH 1324Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuruYozgat Telgraf ve Posta MerkeziAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353; 203 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353.
1906/07AH 1324Muhabere MemuruKüplü Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 118/353
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 Salih Sıtkı 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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