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Mehmet 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

Mehmet Efendi was born in Silistra (Silistre). The annual lists begin in 1879/80 (AH 1297), with Mehmet as mektupçu odası müdürü and no place named, with a rise to Evrak Muduru in 1883/84. For 1880 to 1883 the lists have no entry.

The salary went from 300 kuruş a month in 1879/80 to 900 in 1883/84, the peak, as Evrak Muduru, when 81 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1883/84.

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. Manastır vilayeti mektupçu odası as worded, no place record

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    mektupçu odası müdürü

    300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

  2. Manastır vilayeti evrak müdüriyeti as worded, no place record

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    No annual entry for 1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 1300) before it.

    Evrak Muduru

    900 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry02004006008001,0001879/80AH 12971880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 1301900 kuruşmektupçu odası müdürüEvrak Muduru
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001879/80AH 12971880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 1301This officialMedian, all officials

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 Mehmet Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1879/8030040027%
1883/8490040081%

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 Mehmet Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1879/80AH 1297mektupçu odası müdürü300
No annual entry: 1880 to 1883 (AH 1298 to 1300)
1883/84AH 1301Evrak Muduru900

Record

Personal

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 5 officials with the title Evrak Muduru in the same years, Mehmet Efendi had the 2nd highest salary.

All 15 officials with the title Evrak Muduru

Same birthplace

Of the 54 officials born in Silistra (Silistre), 50 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Efendi had the 14th highest salary of them.

The page of Silistra (Silistre), with the 54 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 207 officials whose first annual entry is for 1879/80 (AH 1297), 191 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Efendi had the 42nd highest salary of them.

All 207 officials whose first annual entry is for 1879/80 (AH 1297)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1879/80AH 1297mektupçu odası müdürüManastır vilayeti mektupçu odası300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records120 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, 10/139.
1883/84AH 1301Evrak MuduruManastır vilayeti evrak müdüriyeti900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records120 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, 10/139.
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 Mehmet 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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