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Musa Rıfat 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 Musa Rıfat Efendi began in Shkodër (İşkodra) in 1877/78 (AH 1294). Work began in Shkodër in 1894/95, at about 17. Every annual entry from 1894/95 to 1899/1900 places Musa Rıfat in the same post, Merkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımı, in Shkodër, the birthplace.

Pay rose from 25 kuruş a month in 1896/97 to a peak of 70 in 1899/1900, in Shkodër, when 3 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, four years of salary come to 2,220 kuruş, 11 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1899/1900.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
0204060801894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 131770 kuruşMerkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımı
Salary against the medians of the same year
20501002005001894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 1317This 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 Musa Rıfat Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1896/97254503250%
1897/98454003501%
1898/99454003001%
1899/1900704003003%

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 Musa Rıfat Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1894/95AH 1312First workShkodër (İşkodra)
1894 to 1900AH 1312 to 1317Merkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımı
10 entries
YearSalary
1894/95
1895/96
1896/97
1896/97
1896/9725
1897/9825
1897/9845
1898/9945
1899/190045
1899/190070
Shkodër (İşkodra)70

Record

Personal

Born
1877/78 (AH 1294)

First work

Year
1894/95 (AH 1312)

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 66 officials with entries in Shkodër (İşkodra) in the same years, 65 have a recorded salary; Musa Rıfat Efendi had the 60th highest salary of them.

All 191 officials with entries in Shkodër (İşkodra)

Same birthplace

Of the 311 officials born in Shkodër (İşkodra), 200 have a recorded salary; Musa Rıfat Efendi had the 182nd highest salary of them.

The page of Shkodër (İşkodra), with the 311 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 225 officials whose first annual entry is for 1894/95 (AH 1312), 198 have a recorded salary; Musa Rıfat Efendi had the 194th highest salary of them.

All 225 officials whose first annual entry is for 1894/95 (AH 1312)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Musa Rıfat Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1894/95AH 1312Merkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımıShkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1895/96AH 1313Merkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımıShkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1896/97AH 1314Merkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımıShkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1896/97AH 1314Merkez Telgrafhanesi mülazımı (Nakil)Shkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1896/97AH 1314Vilayet Evrak Kalemi Mukayyidi refakatiShkodër (İşkodra)25Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1897/98AH 1315Vilayet Evrak Kalemi Mukayyidi refakatiShkodër (İşkodra)25Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1897/98AH 1315Vilayet Evrak Kalemi Mukayyidi refakatiShkodër (İşkodra)45Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1898/99AH 1316Vilayet Evrak Kalemi Mukayyidi refakatiShkodër (İşkodra)45Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1899/1900AH 1317Vilayet Evrak Kalemi Mukayyidi refakatiShkodër (İşkodra)45Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
1899/1900AH 1317Vilayet Evrak Kalemi Mukayyidi refakatiShkodër (İşkodra)70Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236; 352 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/236, s. 469.
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 Musa Rıfat 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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