MUHAMMED ŞEFİK EFENDİ

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Kirkuk (Kerkük) · Dated entries 1881 to 1910 (AH 1299 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİD,00039_00032

The career, year by year

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The life

MUHAMMED ŞEFİK EFENDİ was born in Kirkuk (Kerkük) in 1868/69 (AH 1285). The father’s occupation was Tüccar. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Amara Rüşdiyesi. The language repertoire included Arabic, Persian and Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Amara in 1881/82 (AH 1299). Dated career entries span 1881/82 (AH 1299) to 1909/10 (AH 1327) across 18 AH years, beginning with Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı and ending with entries for Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibi. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Amara, Muntefik, Basra and Kirkuk (Kerkük) and 1 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 200 kuruş in 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 800 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327); the highest recorded monthly rate is 800 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Kirkuk (Kerkük) · 1868/69 (AH 1285)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Tüccar^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Amara Rüşdiyesi^[source]
First work: 1881/82 (AH 1299) · Amara^[source]
Age at first work: 14^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 200 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.
Apprenticeship: 2.75^[source]Duration as recorded; the interval is not dated here.

Career in numbers

19
Dated AH years: 6
Career place names: 4
Entries without a resolved year: 15
Salary years: 200 → 800
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 800
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 61.4%
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.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1909/10 (AH 1327); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1909/10 (AH 1327).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 11 · Kirkuk (Kerkük)

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

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

1
1868/69 (AH 1285)
Kirkuk (Kerkük)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1881/82 (AH 1299)
Amara
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Amara
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 14
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı
  Calculated age 14
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years
Amara
AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Amara
1. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı
  Calculated age 15
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Muhasebe kalemi masarifat kâtibi
  150 kuruşCalculated age 17
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years
Muntefik
AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Muntefik
1. Varidat kitabeti refakati
  250 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Muhasebe-i liva kaza kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 23
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1891/92 (AH 1309) · 2 recorded years
Basra
AH entries: 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.
1. Muhasebe kalemi masraf kâtibi muavini
  400 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Muhasebe kalemi masraf kâtibi muavini
  450 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Infisal
  Calculated age 26
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1894/95 (AH 1312) · 5 recorded years
Kirkuk (Kerkük)
AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye müdüriyeti başkâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Düyun-ı Umumiye müdür vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)
  Calculated age 31
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 9 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1899/1900 (AH 1317)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Azil
  Calculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1904/05 (AH 1322) · 2 recorded years
Hicaz Demiryolu
AH entries: 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Hicaz Demiryolu
1. Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi kâtibi
  300 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi kâtibi
  350 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
10
1908/09 (AH 1326)
Hicaz Demiryolu
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Hicaz Demiryolu
1. Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi kâtibi
  600 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1909/10 (AH 1327)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi ikinci sınıf kâtibi
  800 kuruşCalculated age 42
  Entry & evidence →[1]

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.

Hesabat-ı Umumiye şubesi mülazımı · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Hesabat-ı Umumiye şubesi mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibi · Undated · 1,000 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi birinci sınıf kâtibi · Undated · 1,100 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]

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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How the comparison is calculated

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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.

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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
1883/84 (AH 1301)	200	400	150 to 1,400	12.5%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	200	400	150 to 1,500	12.8%	1748
1889/90 (AH 1307)	250	400	130 to 1,500	21.3%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	400	400	125 to 1,500	45.4%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	400	400	140 to 1,600	45.3%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	450	400	135 to 1,500	53.1%	1935
1894/95 (AH 1312)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.4%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.1%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	500	450	150 to 1,575	52.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	600	400	140 to 1,425	70.5%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	240	400	144 to 1,400	19.9%	1844
1904/05 (AH 1322)	300	400	135 to 1,500	29.3%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	350	430	125 to 1,500	36.9%	1423
1908/09 (AH 1326)	600	400	150 to 2,000	62.0%	1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)	800	600	200 to 2,000	61.4%	1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Kirkuk (Kerkük)5
1894 to 1899 (AH 1312 to 1316)
Amara4
1881 to 1885 (AH 1299 to 1302)
Hicaz Demiryolu3
1904 to 1909 (AH 1322 to 1326)
Basra2
1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)
Muntefik2
1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Kirkuk (Kerkük)240 to 600
Amara150 to 200
Hicaz Demiryolu300 to 600
Basra400 to 450
Muntefik250 to 400

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

Düyun-ı Umumiye müdüriyeti başkâtibi4
1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)
Düyun-ı Umumiye müdür vekili3
1896 to 1899 (AH 1314 to 1316)
Hicaz Demiryolu muhasebe kalemi kâtibi3
1904 to 1909 (AH 1322 to 1326)
Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı3
1881 to 1884 (AH 1299 to 1301)
Aşar anbar memuru muavini2
1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
Muhasebe kalemi masraf kâtibi muavini2
1891 to 1893 (AH 1309 to 1310)

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

Kirkuk (Kerkük)236 other officialsHalil Şükrü Efendi born 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 800 kuruş
Kirkuk (Kerkük)37 other officialsBEKİR SIDKI EFENDİ 5 shared years; highest salary 675 kuruş
1881/82 (AH 1299)187 other officialsMustafa Şevki Efendi first annual entry 1881/82 (AH 1299); no salary recorded

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Amara Rüşdiyesi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]
Persian · Tekellüm^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 1 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Kerküklü devlet adamları
ORHAN ABDULBASIT ANWER ANWER · 2021 · Pages 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313
226 DH_SAİD,00039_00032

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 19 dated AH years

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