Mehmet Zikri Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) · Dated entries 1900 to 1907 (AH 1318 to 1324)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 149/403

The career, year by year

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

Places and reading notes

Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi

7 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

The life

Mehmet Zikri Efendi was born in Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki). The father’s occupation was Çiftçi. Schooling included Sıbyan Mektebi; Beyazıt Rüşdiyesi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1900/01 (AH 1318). Dated career entries span 1900/01 (AH 1318) to 1906/07 (AH 1324) across 7 AH years, beginning with Postahane dağıtıcısı. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Istanbul (Dersaadet) and Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 150 kuruş in 1900/01 (AH 1318) to 400 kuruş in 1906/07 (AH 1324); the highest recorded monthly rate is 400 kuruş in 1906/07 (AH 1324).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) · Year not recorded^[source]
Father’s occupation: Çiftçi^[source]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi; Beyazıt Rüşdiyesi^[source]
First work: 1900/01 (AH 1318) · Istanbul (Dersaadet)^[source]
First salary: 150 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

7
Dated AH years: 2
Career place names: 7
Salary years: 150 → 400
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 400
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 41.1%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1900/01 (AH 1318) to 1906/07 (AH 1324); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1906/07 (AH 1324)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1906/07 (AH 1324).

Life and career

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Follow 3 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.

● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · 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.

1
1900/01 (AH 1318)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  150 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2
1901/02 (AH 1319) · 5 recorded years
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
AH entries: 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6. Postahane dağıtıcısı
  200 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1906/07 (AH 1324)
Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi
1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  Postahane dağıtıcısı
  200 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi
  Kartpostal Memuru
  400 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]

1 entry without a resolved year

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

Birth · Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) · Year not recorded

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

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1900/01 (AH 1318)	150	400	140 to 1,500	10.3%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	150	400	150 to 1,520	9.8%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	150	400	150 to 1,500	9.0%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	150	405	150 to 1,450	9.9%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	150	400	135 to 1,500	10.5%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	200	430	125 to 1,500	15.8%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	400	450	150 to 1,525	41.1%	1371

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● 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

Istanbul (Dersaadet)7
1900 to 1907 (AH 1318 to 1324)
Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi1
1906/07 (AH 1324)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Istanbul (Dersaadet)150 to 200
Cidde Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi400

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

Postahane dağıtıcısı7
1900 to 1907 (AH 1318 to 1324)
Kartpostal Memuru1
1906/07 (AH 1324)

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

Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)66 other officialsKarabet Fehmi Efendi born 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 500 kuruş
Istanbul331 other officialsAhmed Tevfik Paşa 7 shared years; highest salary 40,000 kuruş
1900/01 (AH 1318)119 other officialsMehmed Tahir Efendi first entry in Istanbul; highest salary 600 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Beyazıt Rüşdiyesi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace: Şebinkarahisar^[source]Karahisar-ı Şarki^[1]
Father’s occupation: Çiftçi^[source]
Archive references: BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 149/403^[1]

Education and languages

Turkish: Kitâbet^[source]okur yazar^[1]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi; Beyazıt Rüşdiyesi^[source]
Education level equivalent: 7^[source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place: İstanbul^[source]
First-salary field: 150 kuruş (personal first-salary field)^[source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year: 1900/01 (AH 1318)^[source]

Sources and evidence

Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)
AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 121, 122
BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 149/403; 372 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 149/403.

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