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Mehmet Hamdi 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 Mehmet Hamdi Efendi began in Giresun. The first salary was 900 kuruş a month. The annual lists begin in 1876/77 (AH 1293), with Mehmet Hamdi as Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân Müfettişi and no place named. The lists have no entry for 1878 to 1886 and 1887 to 1895.

The salary went from 500 kuruş a month in 1876/77 to 1,250 in 1886/87, the peak, as a district governor (Kaymakam), when 85 per cent of paid officials earned less. The peak lasted a single year; the next list gives 600 kuruş. In all, five years of salary come to 40,200 kuruş, 1.6 times what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The last annual entry is for 1895/96.

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.

  1. Düzce Kazası as worded, no place record

    1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1295)

    Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân Müfettişi

    500 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years

  2. Diyadin Kazası as worded, no place record

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    No annual entry for 1878 to 1886 (AH 1296 to 1303) before it.

    Kaymakam

    1,250 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

  3. Prizren Sancağı as worded, no place record

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    No annual entry for 1887 to 1895 (AH 1305 to 1312) before it.

    Tahrir-i Vergi Memuru

    600 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entryno entry05001,0001,5001877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121,250 kuruş
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0002,0001877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 1312This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same title

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 Mehmet Hamdi Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1876/7750042055%
1877/7850045054%
187850045054%
1886/871,2504001,25085%
1895/9660040064%

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 Mehmet Hamdi Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First work900first-salary field
1876 to 1878AH 1293 to 1295Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân Müfettişi
4 entries
YearSalary
1876/77500
1877/78500
1878500
1878
500
No annual entry: 1878 to 1886 (AH 1296 to 1303)
1886/87AH 1304Kaymakam1,250
No annual entry: 1887 to 1895 (AH 1305 to 1312)
1895/96AH 1313Tahrir-i Vergi Memuru600

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Giresun

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 job title, same years

Of the 42 officials with the title Kaymakam in the same years, 34 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Hamdi Efendi had the 27th highest salary of them.

All 265 officials with the title Kaymakam

Same birthplace

Of the 72 officials born in Giresun, 67 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Hamdi Efendi had the 8th highest salary of them.

The page of Giresun, with the 72 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 185 officials whose first annual entry is for 1876/77 (AH 1293), 168 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Hamdi Efendi had the 28th highest salary of them.

All 185 officials whose first annual entry is for 1876/77 (AH 1293)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Hamdi Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1876/77AH 1293Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân MüfettişiDüzce Kazası500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915; 171 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915.
1877/78AH 1294Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân MüfettişiDüzce Kazası500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915; 171 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915.
1878AH 1295Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân MüfettişiDüzce Kazası500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915; 171 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915.
1878AH 1295Rüsûm-ı Sitte Duhân Müfettişi (İnfisal)Düzce KazasıAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915; 171 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915.
1886/87AH 1304KaymakamDiyadin Kazası1,250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915; 171 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915.
1895/96AH 1313Tahrir-i Vergi MemuruPrizren Sancağı600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 10/915
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 Mehmet Hamdi 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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