Hüseyin Servet 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
Hüseyin Servet Efendi was born in Söğüt in 1853/54 (AH 1270); the father's occupation was "Bilecik mal müdürü". At about 15, in 1868/69, Hüseyin Servet began work in Bilecik. Every annual entry from 1868/69 to 1874/75 places Hüseyin Servet in Bilecik, first as Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri, from 1870/71 as Mal Muduru and from 1873/74 as Resmî yazı kâtibi.
Pay rose from 200 kuruş a month in 1870/71 to a peak of 230 in 1874/75, in Bilecik, when one in five paid officials earned less. Over three years the salaries add up to 6,840 kuruş, 45 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1874/75.
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.
Born 1853/54 (AH 1270)
First work 1868/69 (AH 1285); 1868 to 1875 (AH 1285 to 1291)
Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri 1868 to 1871 (AH 1285 to 1287); Mal Muduru 1870/71 (AH 1287); Resmî yazı kâtibi 1873 to 1875 (AH 1290 to 1291)
140 to 230 kuruş a month; entries in 5 years
No annual entry for 1871 to 1873 (AH 1288 to 1289).
Career and salary#
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
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1870/71 | 200 | 400 | 500 | 300 | 15% |
| 1873/74 | 140 | 405 | 390 | 10% | |
| 1874/75 | 230 | 450 | 380 | 20% |
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.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1868/69AH 1285 | First work | Bilecik | |
| 1868 to 1871AH 1285 to 1287 | Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri | Bilecik | |
| 1870/71AH 1287 | Mal Muduru | Bilecik | 200 |
| No annual entry: 1871 to 1873 (AH 1288 to 1289) | |||
| 1873 to 1875AH 1290 to 1291 | Resmî yazı kâtibi | Bilecik | 140 to 230 |
Record#
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 8 officials with entries in Bilecik in the same years, Hüseyin Servet Efendi had the lowest salary.
- Mehmet Rifat Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Hâfız Abdülbâki Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 940 kuruş
- Ali Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 720 kuruş
- Ali Şevket Bey2 shared years; highest salary 3,500 kuruş
- Mehmet Kadri Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 12 officials with the title Mal Muduru in the same years, Hüseyin Servet Efendi had the lowest salary.
- Mustafa Talip Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 3,000 kuruş
- MEHMET RAġĠT EFENDĠ1 shared year; highest salary 2,600 kuruş
- Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 2,500 kuruş
- MEHMET NURĠ EFENDĠ1 shared year; highest salary 2,500 kuruş
- İsmail Şevki Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 2,000 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 2 officials born in Söğüt, Hüseyin Servet Efendi had the lowest salary.
- Mehmet Emin Efendiborn 1866/67 (AH 1283); highest salary 500 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 112 officials whose first annual entry is for 1868/69 (AH 1285), 99 have a recorded salary; Hüseyin Servet Efendi had the 96th highest salary of them.
- Ahmed Besim Efendifirst entry in Sivas; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Ahmed Hamdi Efendi②first entry in Didymoteicho (Dimetoka); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Ali Kemal Efendifirst annual entry 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 1,250 kuruş
- Hasan Murad Efendifirst entry in Medina (Medine); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mahmud Efendifirst entry in Preveza (Preveze); highest salary 500 kuruş
All 112 officials whose first annual entry is for 1868/69 (AH 1285)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868/69AH 1285 | Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri | Bilecik | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. | |
| 1869/70AH 1286 | Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri | Bilecik | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. | |
| 1870/71AH 1287 | Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri | Bilecik | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. | |
| 1870/71AH 1287 | Mal Muduru | Bilecik | 200 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. |
| 1873/74AH 1290 | Resmî yazı kâtibi | Bilecik | 140 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. |
| 1873/74AH 1290 | Belediye kâtibi ve sandık emini (İnfisal) | Bilecik | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. | |
| 1874/75AH 1291 | Dava kâtibi | Bilecik | 230 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467. |
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.
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|
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.
- Origin of the record: Source collection.
Subjects
- List of Ottoman officials (Osmanlı memurları listesi)
- Collective biography (kolektif biyografi)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)