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Mehmet Sabit Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kemah · Dated entries 1878 to 1900 (AH 1296 to 1317)

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.126/154

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1878/79 (AH 1296): Muhasebe kalemi mülazımı, Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi1880/81 (AH 1298): Duyun-ı Umumiye 2. kâtibi, Mulatyen memlehası, 20 kuruş1882/83 (AH 1300): Muhasebe kâtibi (İstifa), Duyun-ı Umumiye Muhasebe Kalemi1899/1900 (AH 1317): Ağnam kâtibi, Kurucay, 360 kuruşAH 1296AH 1300AH 1317
Places and reading notes
  • Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi
  • Mulatyen memlehası
  • Kurucay

4 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 4 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.

KurucayKemah
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi

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.

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

  1. 1

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

  2. 2

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Mulatyen memlehası

    Not yet located on the map: Mulatyen memlehası

    1. Duyun-ı Umumiye 2. kâtibi

      20 kuruş

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Duyun-ı Umumiye Muhasebe Kalemi

    Not yet located on the map: Duyun-ı Umumiye Muhasebe Kalemi

    1. Muhasebe kâtibi (İstifa)

      Recorded service ending

  4. 4

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Kurucay

    1. Ağnam kâtibi

      360 kuruş

5 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.

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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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1880/81 (AH 1298)20400160 to 1,5000.8%1448
1899/1900 (AH 1317)360400140 to 1,44041.8%1821

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01803601880/81AH 12981890/91AH 13081899/1900AH 13171880/81 (AH 1298) · 20 kuruş1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 360 kuruş

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. Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi1
    1878/79 (AH 1296)
  2. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  3. Mulatyen memlehası1
    1880/81 (AH 1298)

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. Mulatyen memlehası20

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. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
  2. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  3. 1878/79 (AH 1296)

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; Dersaadet Rüştiyesi [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Kemah [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d.126/154 [1]

Education and languages

Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Dersaadet Rüştiyesi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Duyun-ı Umumiye İdaresi Müdüriyeti Muhasebe Kalemi [source]
First work year
1878/79 (AH 1296) [source]
Apprenticeship
2.1 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicilli Ahval Defterlerine göre Kemahlı devlet memurları

    YUNUS EMRE POLAT · 2014 · Pages 54, 55

    57 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.126/154.

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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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 4 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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