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Mustafa Asım 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

Mustafa Asım Efendi was born in Mecca (Mekke) in 1888/89 (AH 1306). Work began in Jeddah (Cidde) in 1904/05, at about 16. The annual lists begin in 1904/05, with Mustafa Asım as Telgrafhane mülazımı in Jeddah, where the entries run to 1906/07. Alongside, the lists for 1906/07 give a second post, in Yanbu as Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru.

The one salary in the lists is 600 kuruş a month, for 1906/07, when 63 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1906/07.

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
1904/051906/07123MeccaJeddahYanbu
  1. Mecca (Mekke)

    Born 1888/89 (AH 1306)

  2. Jeddah (Cidde)

    First work 1904/05 (AH 1322); 1904 to 1907 (AH 1322 to 1324)

    Telgrafhane mülazımı

    entries in 3 years

  3. Yanbu (Yenbuülbahr)

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru

    600 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
02004006001904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 1324600 kuruşTelgrafhane mülazımıTelgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru

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 Mustafa Asım Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1904/05AH 1322First workJeddah (Cidde)
1904 to 1907AH 1322 to 1324Telgrafhane mülazımı
4 entries
YearSalary
1904/05
1905/06
1906/07
1906/07
Jeddah (Cidde)
1906/07AH 1324Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuruYanbu (Yenbuülbahr)600

Record

Personal

Born
1888/89 (AH 1306)
Birthplace
Mecca (Mekke)

First work

Year
1904/05 (AH 1322)

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 12 officials with entries in Jeddah (Cidde) in the same years, Mustafa Asım Efendi had the 6th highest salary.

All 52 officials with entries in Jeddah (Cidde)

Same birthplace

Of the 117 officials born in Mecca (Mekke), 107 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Asım Efendi had the 48th highest salary of them.

The page of Mecca (Mekke), with the 117 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 110 officials whose first annual entry is for 1904/05 (AH 1322), 99 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Asım Efendi had the 20th highest salary of them.

All 110 officials whose first annual entry is for 1904/05 (AH 1322)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mustafa Asım Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1904/05AH 1322Telgrafhane mülazımıJeddah (Cidde)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records297 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 158/401, s.401.
1905/06AH 1323Telgrafhane mülazımıJeddah (Cidde)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records297 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 158/401, s.401.
1906/07AH 1324Telgrafhane mülazımıJeddah (Cidde)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records297 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 158/401, s.401.
1906/07AH 1324Telgrafhane mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)Jeddah (Cidde)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records297 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 158/401, s.401.
1906/07AH 1324Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuruYanbu (Yenbuülbahr)600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 158/401, s.401.
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 Mustafa Asım 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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