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Mehmed İsmail 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

The life of Mehmed İsmail Efendi began in Komotini (Gümülcine) in 1884/85 (AH 1302). Mehmed İsmail began work in Komotini in 1897/98, at about 13. Few began so young; fewer than 5 per cent of the 5,664 officials whose age at first work is known started at 13 or younger. The first annual entry, for 1897/98, names Mehmed İsmail as Evkaf kalemi mülazımı, with no place. In place of a title the lists give Infisal for 1904/05.

Pay rose from 50 kuruş a month in 1900/01 to a peak of 300 in 1903/04, when 29 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, five years of salary come to 9,240 kuruş, 38 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1904/05.

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. Komotini (Gümülcine)

    Born 1884/85 (AH 1302); First work 1897/98 (AH 1315)

  2. Gümülcine Sancağı Evkaf Kalemi as worded, no place record

    1897 to 1905 (AH 1315 to 1322)

    Evkaf kalemi mülazımı 1897 to 1905 (AH 1315 to 1322); Infisal (a note on status, not a job) 1904/05 (AH 1322)

    50 to 300 kuruş a month; entries in 8 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003001897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 1322300 kuruşEvkaf kalemi mülazımı
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 1322This 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 Mehmed İsmail Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1900/01504002%
1901/02504001%
1902/03704002%
1903/0430040529%
1904/0530040029%

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 Mehmed İsmail Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1897/98AH 1315First workKomotini (Gümülcine)
1897 to 1905AH 1315 to 1322Evkaf kalemi mülazımı
17 entries
YearSalary
1897/98
1898/99
1899/1900
1899/1900
1899/1900
1900/01
1900/01
1900/0150
1901/0250
1902/0350
1902/0370
1903/0470
1903/04
1903/04250
1903/04
1903/04300
1904/05300
300
1904/05AH 1322Infisala note on status, not a job

Record

Personal

Born
1884/85 (AH 1302)

First work

Year
1897/98 (AH 1315)

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 birthplace

Of the 64 officials born in Komotini (Gümülcine), 59 have a recorded salary; Mehmed İsmail Efendi had the 38th highest salary of them.

The page of Komotini (Gümülcine), with the 64 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315), 150 have a recorded salary; Mehmed İsmail Efendi had the 92nd highest salary of them.

All 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed İsmail Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1897/98AH 1315Evkaf kalemi mülazımıGümülcine Sancağı Evkaf KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1898/99AH 1316Evkaf kalemi mülazımıGümülcine Sancağı Evkaf KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1899/1900AH 1317Evkaf kalemi mülazımıGümülcine Sancağı Evkaf KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1899/1900AH 1317Evkaf kalemi mülazımı (Nakil)Gümülcine Sancağı Evkaf KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1899/1900AH 1317Tahrirat kalemi mülazımıGümülcine Tahrirat KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1900/01AH 1318Tahrirat kalemi mülazımıGümülcine Tahrirat KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1900/01AH 1318Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)Gümülcine Tahrirat KalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1900/01AH 1318Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiziGümülcine Tahrirat Kalemi50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1901/02AH 1319Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiziGümülcine Tahrirat Kalemi50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1902/03AH 1320Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiziGümülcine Tahrirat Kalemi50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1902/03AH 1320Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiziGümülcine Tahrirat Kalemi70Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1903/04AH 1321Tahrirat kalemi mübeyyiziGümülcine Tahrirat Kalemi70Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1903/04AH 1321NakilAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1903/04AH 1321Muvakkat tarik katibiKoşukavak–Mestanlı yolu250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1903/04AH 1321Muvakkat tarik katibi (İnfisal)Koşukavak–Mestanlı yoluAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1903/04AH 1321Muvakkat tarik katibiGümülcine–Mestanlı yolu300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1904/05AH 1322Muvakkat tarik katibiGümülcine–Mestanlı yolu300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
1904/05AH 1322InfisalAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records197 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 101/393.
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 Mehmed İsmail 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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