İlyas Şami 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
İlyas Şami Efendi was born in Aleppo (Halep) in 1857/58 (AH 1274) into the Marunî Hristiyan community. Work began in Basra in 1895/96, at about 38, on a first salary of 1,000 kuruş. Of the 5,664 officials whose age at first work is known, fewer than 4 per cent started at 38 or older. The annual lists begin in 1895/96, with İlyas Şami as Basra Vilayeti tercümanı in Basra, where the entries run to 1903/04. At the same time, from 1903/04, the lists also place İlyas Şami in a post with no place named as Nakil. Alongside, the lists for 1903/04 give a second post, in Baghdad as Bağdat Vilayeti tercümanı.
Pay rose from 1,000 kuruş a month in 1895/96 to a peak of 1,440 in 1903/04, in Baghdad, when nine in ten paid officials earned less. In all, nine years of salary come to 106,080 kuruş, 2.4 times what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The last annual entry is for 1903/04.
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.
Not on the map, as no position is recorded: stop 3 (Place not recorded).
Born 1857/58 (AH 1274)
First work 1895/96 (AH 1313); 1895 to 1904 (AH 1313 to 1321)
Basra Vilayeti tercümanı
900 to 1,000 kuruş a month; entries in 9 years
Place not recorded not on the map
1903/04 (AH 1321)
Nakil
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895/96 | 1,000 | 400 | 385 | 80% | |
| 1896/97 | 1,000 | 450 | 570 | 79% | |
| 1897/98 | 900 | 400 | 556.5 | 81% | |
| 1898/99 | 900 | 400 | 537.5 | 81% | |
| 1899/1900 | 900 | 400 | 800 | 80% | |
| 1900/01 | 900 | 400 | 750 | 80% | |
| 1901/02 | 900 | 400 | 400 | 78% | |
| 1902/03 | 900 | 400 | 900 | 79% | |
| 1903/04 | 1,440 | 405 | 715 | 89% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1895/96AH 1313 | First work | Basra | 1,000first-salary field |
| 1895 to 1904AH 1313 to 1321 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 1,000 to 900 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Nakil | ||
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Bağdat Vilayeti tercümanı | Baghdad (Bağdat) | 1,440 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1857/58 (AH 1274)
- Birthplace
- Aleppo (Halep)
- Community
- Marunî Hristiyan
- Nationality as recorded
- Maruni
First work
- Year
- 1895/96 (AH 1313)
- Place
- Basra
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 18 officials with entries in Basra in the same years, İlyas Şami Efendi had the 5th highest salary.
- HACI KAZIM HİLMİ EFENDİ5 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Daver Sabri Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Hüseyin Naci Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 570 kuruş
- Mahmud Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- ARAP İZZET EFENDİ3 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 73 officials born in Aleppo (Halep), 70 have a recorded salary; İlyas Şami Efendi had the 11th highest salary of them.
- Cebrail Efendiborn 1857/58 (AH 1274); highest salary 700 kuruş
- Gazal Mihail Efendiborn 1856/57 (AH 1273); highest salary 320 kuruş
- Antuan Efendiborn 1858/59 (AH 1275); highest salary 1,320 kuruş
- İskender Raad Efendiborn 1855/56 (AH 1272); highest salary 2,200 kuruş
- Ahmet Hamdi Efendiborn 1854/55 (AH 1271); highest salary 500 kuruş
The page of Aleppo (Halep), with the 73 officials born there
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 180 officials whose first annual entry is for 1895/96 (AH 1313), 162 have a recorded salary; İlyas Şami Efendi had the 17th highest salary of them.
- Mustafa Nuri Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Süleyman Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 330 kuruş
- Maksud Mesrub Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Ziya Efendifirst entry in Kastamonu; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Hafız İdris Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 200 kuruş
All 180 officials whose first annual entry is for 1895/96 (AH 1313)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 1,000 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 1,000 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Basra Vilayeti tercümanı | Basra | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Nakil | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 | ||
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Bağdat Vilayeti tercümanı | Baghdad (Bağdat) | 1,440 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA, DH. SAİDd. 154 163 |
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)