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Mustafa Ne ş’et Efendi

Born 1855/56 (AH 1272) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1873 to 1908 (AH 1290 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.6 s.213; BOA, DH. SAİD, nr.6 s.213

The career, year by year

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Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 11 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

2 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1855/56 (AH 1272)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Bâb-ı Seraskeri, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bâb-ı Seraskeri, İstanbul

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Bâb-ı Seraskeri, İstanbul

      münşeat kitabı (kalem)

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Dâr-ı Şura-yı Askeri Sıhhiye Dairesi memuru

      Calculated age 21

  4. 4

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Bâb-ı Seraskeri, İstanbul

    Not yet located on the map: Bâb-ı Seraskeri, İstanbul

    1. Muhasebe kalemleri memuru

      Calculated age 23

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. istifa / terk-i hizmet (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 25

  6. 6

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vukuat kalemi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Senedat kalemi memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Senedat kalemi memuru

      610 kuruşCalculated age 38

  8. 8

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Senedat kalemi memuru

      650 kuruşCalculated age 40

  9. 9

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Senedat kalemi memuru

      585 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Senedat kalemi memuru

      630 kuruşCalculated age 42

  10. 10

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Senedat kalemi memuru

      680 kuruşCalculated age 45

  11. 11

    1901/02 (AH 1319) · 7 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Taşra senedatı tedkik memuru

      680 kuruşCalculated age 47

    2. Senedat idaresi takrir heyeti azası

      950 kuruşCalculated age 53

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

4 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1882/83 (AH 1300)500400150 to 1,40060.0%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)555400150 to 1,40067.2%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)600400150 to 1,50067.7%1748
1892/93 (AH 1310)610400135 to 1,50071.6%1935
1894/95 (AH 1312)650400140 to 1,50071.7%2004
1896/97 (AH 1314)630450150 to 1,57569.1%2119
1899/1900 (AH 1317)680400140 to 1,44073.3%1821
1901/02 (AH 1319)680400150 to 1,52072.1%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)680400150 to 1,50072.9%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)710405150 to 1,45073.9%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)750400135 to 1,50074.5%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)790430125 to 1,50074.4%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)850450150 to 1,52574.2%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)950460135 to 1,61576.9%1290

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1876 to 1908 (AH 1293 to 1325)
  2. Bâb-ı Seraskeri, İstanbul2
    1873 to 1878 (AH 1290 to 1295)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1883 to 1900 (AH 1301 to 1317)
  2. 1904 to 1908 (AH 1322 to 1325)
  3. 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322)
  4. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  5. 1876/77 (AH 1293)
  6. 1878 (AH 1295)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Beyazıd Rüşdiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 132, 133, 134

    92 BOA, DH. SA ĐD, nr.6 s.213; BOA, DH. SAİD, nr.6 s.213

Read the original source accounts · 27 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 23 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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