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İbrahim 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

İbrahim Efendi was born in Baghdad (Bağdat) in 1879/80 (AH 1297). At about 10, in 1889/90, İbrahim began work in Baghdad. Few began so young; 47 of the 5,664 officials whose age at first work is known started at 10 or younger. Every annual entry from 1889/90 to 1898/99 places İbrahim in the same post, Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımı, in Baghdad, the birthplace. In place of a title the lists give İstifa (resignation) for 1898/99.

The salary went from 20 kuruş a month in 1892/93 to 150 in 1897/98, the peak, in Baghdad, when one in ten paid officials earned less. In all, seven years of salary come to 7,200 kuruş, 21 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1898/99.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
0501001501889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 1316150 kuruşVilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımı
Salary against the medians of the same year
20501002005001,0002,0001889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 1316This 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 İbrahim Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1892/93204005000%
1893/94204007200%
1894/95504005502%
1895/96854007604%
1896/971254501,2006%
1897/9815040066210%
1898/99150400576.510%

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 İbrahim Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1889/90AH 1307First workBaghdad (Bağdat)
1889 to 1899AH 1307 to 1316Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımı
15 entries
YearSalary
1889/90
1890/91
1891/92
1892/93
1892/9320
1893/9420
1894/9520
1894/9550
1895/9650
1895/9685
1896/9785
1896/97125
1897/98125
1897/98150
1898/99150
Baghdad (Bağdat)150
1898/99AH 1316İstifaresignation (a note on status, not a job)

Record

Personal

Born
1879/80 (AH 1297)

First work

Year
1889/90 (AH 1307)

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 43 officials with entries in Baghdad (Bağdat) in the same years, 42 have a recorded salary; İbrahim Efendi had the 40th highest salary of them.

All 119 officials with entries in Baghdad (Bağdat)

Same birthplace

Of the 26 officials born in Baghdad (Bağdat), 24 have a recorded salary; İbrahim Efendi had the 22nd highest salary of them.

The page of Baghdad (Bağdat), with the 26 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 198 officials whose first annual entry is for 1889/90 (AH 1307), 180 have a recorded salary; İbrahim Efendi had the 164th highest salary of them.

All 198 officials whose first annual entry is for 1889/90 (AH 1307)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of İbrahim Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1889/90AH 1307Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1890/91AH 1308Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1891/92AH 1309Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1892/93AH 1310Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1892/93AH 1310Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)20Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1893/94AH 1311Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)20Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1894/95AH 1312Vilayet Mektubi Kalemi mülazımıBaghdad (Bağdat)20Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1894/95AH 1312Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1895/96AH 1313Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1895/96AH 1313Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)85Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1896/97AH 1314Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)85Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1896/97AH 1314Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)125Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1897/98AH 1315Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)125Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1897/98AH 1315Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)150Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1898/99AH 1316Arazi-i Seniyye Komisyonu Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyidiBaghdad (Bağdat)150Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
1898/99AH 1316İstifaAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1027
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 İbrahim 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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