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Süleyman Zühdü 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

Süleyman Zühdü Efendi was born in Shkodër (İşkodra) in 1872/73 (AH 1289). The first salary was 300 kuruş a month. Every annual entry from 1902/03 to 1907/08 places Süleyman Zühdü in the same post, Aşar ambar memuru, in Lezhë.

The salary never rose above the first in the lists, 300 kuruş a month in 1902/03, in Lezhë, when 28 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over four years the salaries add up to 14,400 kuruş, 72 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1907/08.

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.

All 2 stops
birthplacefirst workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
12ShkodërLezhë
  1. Shkodër (İşkodra)

    Born 1872/73 (AH 1289)

  2. Lezhë (Leş)

    First work here; 1902 to 1908 (AH 1320 to 1325)

    Aşar ambar memuru 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322); Sandık emini 1907/08 (AH 1325)

    300 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years

    No annual entry for 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324).

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry01002003001902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 1325300 kuruşAşar ambar memuruSandık emini
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 1325This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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 Süleyman Zühdü Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1902/0330040035028%
1903/0430040535029%
1904/0530040030029%
1907/0830046035029%

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 Süleyman Zühdü Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workLezhë (Leş)300first-salary field
1902 to 1905AH 1320 to 1322Aşar ambar memuru
4 entries
YearSalary
1902/03300
1903/04300
1904/05300
1904/05
Lezhë (Leş)300
No annual entry: 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)
1907/08AH 1325Sandık eminiLezhë (Leş)300

Record

Personal

Born
1872/73 (AH 1289)

First work

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 2 officials with entries in Lezhë (Leş) in the same years, Süleyman Zühdü Efendi had the lowest salary.

All 22 officials with entries in Lezhë (Leş)

Same birthplace

Of the 311 officials born in Shkodër (İşkodra), 200 have a recorded salary; Süleyman Zühdü Efendi had the 111th highest salary of them.

The page of Shkodër (İşkodra), with the 311 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 157 officials whose first annual entry is for 1902/03 (AH 1320), 138 have a recorded salary; Süleyman Zühdü Efendi had the 64th highest salary of them.

All 157 officials whose first annual entry is for 1902/03 (AH 1320)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Süleyman Zühdü Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1902/03AH 1320Aşar ambar memuruLezhë (Leş)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204; 406 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204, s. 405.
1903/04AH 1321Aşar ambar memuruLezhë (Leş)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204; 406 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204, s. 405.
1904/05AH 1322Aşar ambar memuruLezhë (Leş)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204; 406 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204, s. 405.
1904/05AH 1322Aşar ambar memuru (İnfisal)Lezhë (Leş)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204; 406 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204, s. 405.
1907/08AH 1325Sandık eminiLezhë (Leş)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204; 406 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 154/204, s. 405.
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 Süleyman Zühdü 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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