Mehmed 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
Mehmed Efendi was born in Malatya in 1864/65 (AH 1281). The first salary was 30 kuruş a month. From the first annual entry, for 1896/97, to 1905/06, every annual entry places Mehmed in the same post, Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru, in Istanbul.
Pay rose from 140 kuruş a month in 1896/97 to a peak of 300 in 1905/06, in Istanbul, when 29 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, four years of salary come to 10,152 kuruş, 50 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1905/06.
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.
Born 1864/65 (AH 1281)
First work here; 1896 to 1906 (AH 1314 to 1323)
Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru
100 to 300 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years
No annual entry for 1897 to 1899 (AH 1315 to 1316) or 1900/01 (AH 1318) or 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97 | 140 | 450 | 500 | 8% | |
| 1899/1900 | 200 | 400 | 506 | 15% | |
| 1901/02 | 206 | 400 | 580 | 20% | |
| 1905/06 | 300 | 430 | 600 | 29% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 30first-salary field | |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 to 140 |
| No annual entry: 1897 to 1899 (AH 1315 to 1316) | |||
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 160 to 200 |
| No annual entry: 1900/01 (AH 1318) | |||
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 206 |
| No annual entry: 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322) | |||
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1864/65 (AH 1281)
- Birthplace
- Malatya
First work
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
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 360 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, 347 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 294th highest salary of them.
- Ahmed Tevfik Paşa4 shared years; highest salary 40,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Necmeddin Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 20,000 kuruş
- İbrahim Hayrullah Beğ4 shared years; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Said4 shared years; highest salary 10,000 kuruş
- Abdüllatif Safa Bey4 shared years; highest salary 8,000 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 140 officials born in Malatya, 132 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 88th highest salary of them.
- Abdullah Kâzım Efendiborn 1864/65 (AH 1281); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Fikri Efendiborn 1863/64 (AH 1280); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mehmed Emin Efendiborn 1863/64 (AH 1280); highest salary 1,250 kuruş
- Mahmud Namık Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmed Sadi Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 180 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 186 officials whose first annual entry is for 1896/97 (AH 1314), 165 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 97th highest salary of them.
- Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; no salary recorded
- Mehmet Sadık Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Mehmed Rıza Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Parsih Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 1,500 kuruş
- Süleyman Fâik Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
All 186 officials whose first annual entry is for 1896/97 (AH 1314)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH. SAİD.00070.00093, s. 183 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 140 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH. SAİD.00070.00093, s. 183 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 160 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH. SAİD.00070.00093, s. 183 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 200 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH. SAİD.00070.00093, s. 183 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 206 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH. SAİD.00070.00093, s. 183 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Postahane Mekâtib-i Mevrude Dairesi memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | DH. SAİD.00070.00093, s. 183 |
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)