Skip to content
Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Mehmet Tevvfik Efendi

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Bandırma · Dated entries 1882 to 1909 (AH 1300 to 1326)

Languages French, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 11 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1BandırmaBigadiçErdek
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Bandırma

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Bandırma

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Bandırma

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Rüsum Müdürlüğü Duhan tahrir kâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 17

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Bandırma

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye 1. Kol Mükerrerat-ı Asmare kâtibi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Düyun-ı Umumiye 1. Kol Mükerrerat-ı Asmare kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 20

  4. 4

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 6 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Askerlik

      Calculated age 23

    2. Askerlik

      Calculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Place not recorded / Bandırma

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Askerlik

      Calculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bandırma

      Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti mülazımı

      Calculated age 29

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Bandırma / Bigadiç

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bandırma

      Düyun-ı Umumiye Nezareti mülazımı

      Calculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bigadiç

      Düyun-ı Umumiye kâtip ve sandık emini

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

  7. 7

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years

    Bigadiç

    AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye kâtip ve sandık emini

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Düyun-ı Umumiye kâtip ve sandık emini

      400 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

  8. 8

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Bigadiç / Erdek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bigadiç

      Düyun-ı Umumiye kâtip ve sandık emini

      400 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Erdek

      Düyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi ikinci kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 33

  9. 9

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 2 recorded years

    Erdek

    AH entries: 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.

    1. Düyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi ikinci kâtibi

      Calculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Düyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi ikinci kâtibi

      Calculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

  10. 10

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Erdek / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Erdek

      Düyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi ikinci kâtibi

      Calculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Düyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 36

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Bandırma

    1. Ziraat Bankası Sandığı muhasebe kâtibi refik-i sânisi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 43

2 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1882/83 (AH 1300)400400150 to 1,40046.9%1655
1885/86 (AH 1303)600400150 to 1,50066.1%1787
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)400450150 to 1,57542.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)400400140 to 1,42545.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)400400144 to 1,40044.3%1844
1908/09 (AH 1326)300400150 to 2,00032.3%1232

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1882 to 1909 (AH 1300 to 1326)
  2. 1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
  3. 1898 to 1902 (AH 1316 to 1319)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Bandırma300 to 600

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1888 to 1895 (AH 1306 to 1312)
  2. 1898 to 1902 (AH 1316 to 1319)
  3. 1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
  4. 1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  5. 1885/86 (AH 1303)
  6. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüştiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Rüştiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Bandırmalı devlet adamları

    ŞERİFE AÇIKGÖZ · 2020 · Pages 110, 111, 112

Read the original source accounts · 27 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 17 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 25 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

Subjects