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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, into the İslam community. The annual lists begin in 1869/70 (AH 1286), with Osman as tuz kâtibi and no place named. The lists have no entry for 1870 to 1872 and 1880 to 1889. In place of a title the lists give Vefat (death) for 1889/90.

The salary went from 190 kuruş a month in 1869/70 to 240 in 1879/80, the peak, when 17 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, four years of salary come to 9,720 kuruş, 47 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1889/90.

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

    First work here

  2. Giresun Rüsumat Müdüriyeti as worded, no place record

    1869 to 1873 (AH 1286 to 1289)

    tuz kâtibi 1869/70 (AH 1286); sandık emini (Görevin sona ermesi) 1872/73 (AH 1289)

    190 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

    No annual entry for 1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288).

  3. Piraziz (Abdal) Rüsumat Müdüriyeti as worded, no place record

    1874 to 1890 (AH 1291 to 1307)

    No annual entry for 1873/74 (AH 1290) before it.

    rüsumat memuru (görev belirtilmemiş) 1874 to 1880 (AH 1291 to 1297); Vefat (death (a note on status, not a job)) 1889/90 (AH 1307)

    190 to 240 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
no entryno entryno entry01002003001869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 1306240 kuruşrüsumat memuru (görev belirtilmemiş)
Salary against the medians of the same year
1002005001869/70AH 12861871/72AH 12881873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 1306This 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
1869/7019040015%
1874/7519045013%
1875/7619045012%
1879/8024040017%

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)
First workGiresun
1869/70AH 1286tuz kâtibi190
No annual entry: 1870 to 1872 (AH 1287 to 1288)
1872/73AH 1289sandık emini (Görevin sona ermesi)
No annual entry: 1873/74 (AH 1290)
1874 to 1880AH 1291 to 1297rüsumat memuru (görev belirtilmemiş)
9 entries
YearSalary
1874/75190
1875/76190
1876/77
1877/78
1878
1878/79
1879/80
1879/80240
1879/80
190
No annual entry: 1880 to 1889 (AH 1298 to 1306)
1889/90AH 1307Vefatdeath (a note on status, not a job)

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Giresun
Community
İslam

First work

Place
Giresun

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 72 officials born in Giresun, 67 have a recorded salary; Osman Efendi had the 61st highest salary of them.

The page of Giresun, with the 72 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 134 officials whose first annual entry is for 1869/70 (AH 1286), 121 have a recorded salary; Osman Efendi had the 118th highest salary of them.

All 134 officials whose first annual entry is for 1869/70 (AH 1286)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Osman Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1869/70AH 1286tuz kâtibiGiresun Rüsumat Müdüriyeti190Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1872/73AH 1289sandık emini (Görevin sona ermesi)Giresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1874/75AH 1291rüsumat memuru (görev belirtilmemiş)Piraziz (Abdal) Rüsumat Müdüriyeti190Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1875/76AH 1292sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat Müdüriyeti190Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1876/77AH 1293sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1877/78AH 1294sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1878AH 1295sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1878/79AH 1296sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1879/80AH 1297sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1879/80AH 1297sandık eminiGiresun Rüsumat Müdüriyeti240Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1879/80AH 1297sandık emini (Görevin sona ermesi)Giresun Rüsumat MüdüriyetiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records194 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49.
1889/90AH 1307VefatAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 12/49
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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