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Mehmed Said 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 Said Efendi was born in Kilis in 1882/83 (AH 1300); the father's occupation was "Redif yüzbaşısı". The first annual entry, for 1908/09, names Mehmed Said as Polis neferi, with no place.

The one salary in the lists is 300 kuruş a month, for 1908/09, when one in three paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1909/10.

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.

All 3 stops
birthplacefirst workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
12KilisLatakia

Not on the map, as no position is recorded: stop 3 (Place not recorded).

  1. Kilis

    Born 1882/83 (AH 1300)

  2. Latakia (Lazkiye)

    First work here

  3. Place not recorded not on the map

    1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

    Polis neferi

    300 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003001908/09AH 13261909/10AH 1327300 kuruşPolis neferi

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 Said Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workLatakia (Lazkiye)
1908 to 1910AH 1326 to 1327Polis neferi
2 entries
YearSalary
1908/09300
1909/10
300

Record

Personal

Born
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Birthplace
Kilis
Father's occupation
Redif yüzbaşısı

First work

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 Kilis, 62 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Said Efendi had the 42nd highest salary of them.

The page of Kilis, with the 72 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 158 officials whose first annual entry is for 1908/09 (AH 1326), 139 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Said Efendi had the 44th highest salary of them.

All 158 officials whose first annual entry is for 1908/09 (AH 1326)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Said Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1908/09AH 1326Polis neferi300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1909/10AH 1327Polis neferiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
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 Said 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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