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Osman 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

Osman Efendi was born in Giresun in 1865/66 (AH 1282). The personnel record dates the first work to 1893/94, after the first annual entry. The first annual entry, for 1889/90, names Osman as askerlik (Ziynet-i Derya Vapuru), with no place. For 1890 to 1893 the lists have no entry.

Pay rose from 200 kuruş a month in 1894/95 to a peak of 350 in 1897/98, when 40 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, four years of salary come to 11,400 kuruş, 57 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1897/98.

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. Giresun

    Born 1865/66 (AH 1282)

  2. Ziynet-i Derya Vapuru as worded, no place record

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    askerlik (Ziynet-i Derya Vapuru)

    entries in 1 year

  3. Giresun Rüsûmât Müdüriyeti as worded, no place record

    1893 to 1898 (AH 1311 to 1315)

    No annual entry for 1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310) before it.

    Mülazım 1893/94 (AH 1311); Muhafaza Kolcusu (Nakil) 1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)

    200 to 350 kuruş a month; entries in 5 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry01002003004001889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 1315350 kuruşMülazımMuhafaza Kolcusu (Nakil)
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 1315This 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 Osman Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1894/9520040015%
1895/9620040014%
1896/9720045012%
1897/9835040040%

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 Osman Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1889/90AH 1307askerlik (Ziynet-i Derya Vapuru)
No annual entry: 1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
1893/94AH 1311First work
1893/94AH 1311Mülazım
1894 to 1898AH 1312 to 1315Muhafaza Kolcusu (Nakil)
7 entries
YearSalary
1894/95
1894/95200
1895/96200
1896/97200
1897/98200
1897/98
1897/98350
350

Record

Personal

Born
1865/66 (AH 1282)
Birthplace
Giresun

First work

Year
1893/94 (AH 1311)

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 10 officials with the title Mülazım in the same years, 9 have a recorded salary; Osman Efendi had the 7th highest salary of them.

All 92 officials with the title Mülazım

Same birthplace

Of the 72 officials born in Giresun, 67 have a recorded salary; Osman Efendi had the 37th highest salary of them.

The page of Giresun, with the 72 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; Osman Efendi had the 113th 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 Osman Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1889/90AH 1307askerlik (Ziynet-i Derya Vapuru)Ziynet-i Derya VapuruAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1893/94AH 1311MülazımGiresun Rüsûmât MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1894/95AH 1312Muhafaza Kolcusu (Nakil)Giresun Rüsûmât MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1894/95AH 1312Eşya-yı Ayniye ve Ambar MemuruGiresun Rüsûmât Müdüriyeti200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1895/96AH 1313Eşya-yı Ayniye ve Ambar MemuruGiresun Rüsûmât Müdüriyeti200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1896/97AH 1314Eşya-yı Ayniye ve Ambar MemuruGiresun Rüsûmât Müdüriyeti200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1897/98AH 1315Eşya-yı Ayniye ve Ambar MemuruGiresun Rüsûmât Müdüriyeti200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1897/98AH 1315Eşya-yı Ayniye ve Ambar Memuru (Nakil)Giresun Rüsûmât MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253; 195 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253.
1897/98AH 1315Sandık EminiGiresun Rüsûmât Müdüriyeti350Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 124/253
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 Osman 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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