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Mehmed İsmail 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

The life of Mehmed İsmail Efendi began in Kırşehir in 1886/87 (AH 1304). Mehmed İsmail began work in Ankara in 1910/11, at about 23, on a first salary of 400 kuruş. From the first annual entry, for 1910/11, to 1911/12, every annual entry places Mehmed İsmail in the same post, polis memuru (kayıt kabul), in Ankara.

Pay rose from 400 kuruş a month in 1910/11 to a peak of 500 in 1911, in Ankara, when 38 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, three years of salary come to 16,800 kuruş, 66 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1911/12.

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 2 stops
birthplacefirst workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
1910/1112KırşehirAnkara
  1. Kırşehir

    Born 1886/87 (AH 1304)

  2. Ankara

    First work 1910/11 (AH 1328); 1910 to 1912 (AH 1328 to 1330)

    polis memuru (kayıt kabul)

    400 to 500 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
02004006001910/11AH 13281911AH 13291911/12AH 1330500 kuruşpolis memuru (kayıt kabul)
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001910/11AH 13281911AH 13291911/12AH 1330This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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
Salary of Mehmed İsmail Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1910/1140050052031%
191150060062538%
1911/125001,00025%

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.

Career of Mehmed İsmail Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1910/11AH 1328First workAnkara400first-salary field
1910 to 1912AH 1328 to 1330polis memuru (kayıt kabul)
5 entries
YearSalary
1910/11400
1911400
1911500
1911/12500
1911/12500
Ankara400 to 500

Record

Personal

Born
1886/87 (AH 1304)
Birthplace
Kırşehir

First work

Year
1910/11 (AH 1328)
Place
Ankara

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 9 officials with entries in Ankara in the same years, 8 have a recorded salary; Mehmed İsmail Efendi had the 7th highest salary of them.

All 119 officials with entries in Ankara

Same birthplace

Of the 72 officials born in Kırşehir, 65 have a recorded salary; Mehmed İsmail Efendi had the 19th highest salary of them.

The page of Kırşehir, with the 72 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 98 officials whose first annual entry is for 1910/11 (AH 1328), 82 have a recorded salary; Mehmed İsmail Efendi had the 16th highest salary of them.

All 98 officials whose first annual entry is for 1910/11 (AH 1328)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed İsmail Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1910/11AH 1328polis memuru (kayıt kabul)Ankara400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.188/153,s.153.
1911AH 1329polis memuru (kayıt kabul)Ankara400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.188/153,s.153.
1911AH 1329polis kayıt muaviniAnkara500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.188/153,s.153.
1911/12AH 1330polis kayıt muaviniAnkara500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.188/153,s.153.
1911/12AH 1330polis kayıt muavini (memuriyet tasdiki)Ankara500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr.188/153,s.153.
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 İsmail 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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