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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Mehmed Şakir Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Taşköprü · Dated entries 1882 to 1913 (AH 1300 to 1331)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA. DH. SAİD. d., 89/29; BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.751

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 8 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1Taşköprü
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Taşköprü

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

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

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

  1. 1

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Taşköprü

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi / Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi; Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 23

    2. Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi görevlisi

      60 kuruşCalculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 3 recorded years

    İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi / Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi; Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Seyis

      60 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi görevlisi

      60 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    All 7 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 5 recorded years

    İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. Odacı

      100 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Odacı

      100 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1891/92 (AH 1309) · 8 recorded years

    İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi / Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi; Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Odacı

      100 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Kapu çukadarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    All 18 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 3 recorded years

    Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. Kapu çukadarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kapu çukadarı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 42

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi / Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi; Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Kapı çuhadarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 43

    2. Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

      Kapu çukadarı

      400 kuruşCalculated age 43

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 11 recorded years

    Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328, 1329, 1330, 1331. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi

    1. Kapu çukadarı

      Calculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kapu çukadarı

      350 kuruşCalculated age 54

    All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

2 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.

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

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

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.

View the yearly values
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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1882/83 (AH 1300)60400150 to 1,4002.8%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)60400150 to 1,4002.9%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)60400150 to 1,5002.6%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)100400150 to 1,5004.8%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)100400150 to 1,5004.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)100400150 to 1,5005.0%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)100400135 to 1,5005.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)100400130 to 1,5005.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)100400125 to 1,5005.7%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)300400140 to 1,60028.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)300400140 to 1,40027.9%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)300400140 to 1,50028.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)400400144 to 1,40044.3%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)300400140 to 1,50029.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)500400150 to 1,52054.4%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)400400150 to 1,50044.4%1627
1909/10 (AH 1327)250600200 to 2,00015.1%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)250500200 to 2,00013.3%732
1911 (AH 1329)250600250 to 2,5008.7%402
1911/12 (AH 1330)2501,000300 to 3,0006.0%233
1912/13 (AH 1331)3501,200300 to 4,00010.7%151

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi27
    1882 to 1913 (AH 1300 to 1331)
  2. İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi18
    1882 to 1903 (AH 1300 to 1320)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Istabl-ı Âmire İdaresi60 to 500
  2. İstabl-ı Âmire İdaresi60 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
  1. 1891 to 1913 (AH 1309 to 1331)
  2. 1891 to 1903 (AH 1309 to 1320)
  3. 1885 to 1892 (AH 1303 to 1309)
  4. 1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
  5. 1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)

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

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Taşköprülü memurlar

    VİLDAN ŞAHİN · 2023 · Pages 135, 136

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d., 89/29

  2. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 45, 46

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.751

Read the original source accounts · 61 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 32 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 52 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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