Hafız Mehmet Müslim Efendi

Hafız Mehmet Müslim Efendi was born in Ioannina (Yanya) in 1865/66 (AH 1282). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Kastoria (Kesriye) in 1880/81 (AH 1298). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 6 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 380 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1886/87, the official was about 21 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1886/87, shows Muhabere Memuru in Mudurnu, with 380 kuruş a month. In 1887/88 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Thessaloniki (Selanik), the salary going from 380 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Mudurnu). In 1889/90 the record shows Başmuhabere Memuru in Gracko, the salary going from 400 to 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Thessaloniki). In 1894/95 the record shows 3. Müdür in Edessa (Vodina), with 600 kuruş a month (before: Başmuhabere Memuru in Gracko).

The highest salary, 600 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1889/90 as Başmuhabere Memuru. 58 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 12 years with a salary the median is 600 kuruş a month, with 2 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 200 kuruş, is seen in 1889/90. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 3.25 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1897/98, when 61 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.