Mehmet Şakir 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
The life of Mehmet Şakir Efendi began in Bosna in 1858/59 (AH 1275). Work began in 1887/88, at about 29, on a first salary of 300 kuruş. The first annual entry, for 1887/88, names Mehmet Şakir as Tarik çavuşu, with no place. The lists have no entry for 1890 to 1909. In 1909/10 the lists place Mehmet Şakir in Istanbul.
Pay rose from 300 kuruş a month in 1887/88 to a peak of 800 in 1909/10, in Istanbul, when 61 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1909/10.
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.
Çaniçe as worded, no place record
1887 to 1890 (AH 1305 to 1307)
Tarik çavuşu
300 to 500 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years
1909/10 (AH 1327)
No annual entry for 1890 to 1909 (AH 1308 to 1326) before it.
Kondüktör
800 kuruş a month; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1887/88 | 300 | 400 | 28% | ||
| 1888/89 | 400 | 400 | 45% | ||
| 1889/90 | 500 | 400 | 56% | ||
| 1909/10 | 800 | 600 | 850 | 61% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887/88AH 1305 | First work | 300first-salary field | |
| 1887 to 1890AH 1305 to 1307 | Tarik çavuşu | 300 to 500 | |
| No annual entry: 1890 to 1909 (AH 1308 to 1326) | |||
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Kondüktör | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 800 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Birthplace
- Bosna
First work
- Year
- 1887/88 (AH 1305)
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 132 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, 126 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şakir Efendi had the 73rd highest salary of them.
- Ahmed Tevfik Paşa1 shared year; highest salary 40,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Raif Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 30,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Necmeddin Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 20,000 kuruş
- İbrahim Hayrullah Beğ1 shared year; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Şerif Beğ1 shared year; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 191 officials whose first annual entry is for 1887/88 (AH 1305), 173 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şakir Efendi had the 29th highest salary of them.
- İstavri Efendifirst annual entry 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 550 kuruş
- İbrahim Efendifirst annual entry 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 350 kuruş
- MEHMET EFENDİ (DH. SAID 103/121)first annual entry 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 800 kuruş
- İbrahim Hakkı Efendifirst annual entry 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 360 kuruş
- Kemal Efendifirst annual entry 1887/88 (AH 1305); highest salary 450 kuruş
All 191 officials whose first annual entry is for 1887/88 (AH 1305)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Tarik çavuşu | Çaniçe | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249; 328 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249, s.249. |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Tarik çavuşu | Çaniçe | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249; 328 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249, s.249. |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Tarik peykörü | Çaniçe | 400 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249; 328 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249, s.249. |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Kondüktör | Çakalca | 500 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 146 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 60/249. 101 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Tarik peykörü | Çaniçe | 400 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249; 328 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249, s.249. |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Kondüktör | Çaniçe | 500 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249; 328 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249, s.249. |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Kondüktör | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 800 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 60/249. |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | Zahire kondüktörü | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 800 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 60/249, s.249. |
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)