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İsmail Hakkı Bey

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

İsmail Hakkı Bey was born in Diyarbakır in 1870/71 (AH 1287). Work began in Istanbul in 1893/94, at about 23, on a first salary of 1,000 kuruş. Every annual entry from 1893/94 to 1901/02 places İsmail Hakkı in the same post, Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibi, in Istanbul.

The salary went from 1,500 kuruş a month in 1893/94 to 4,650 in 1901/02, the peak, in Istanbul, when 97 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, nine years of salary come to 285,000 kuruş, 6.5 times what an official on the median salary earned in those years. On average the pay stood in the top 5.7 per cent of each year's paid officials; fewer than 2 per cent of the 4,381 officials paid for five years or more stood as high. The last annual entry is for 1901/02.

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.

All 2 stops
birthplacefirst workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
1893/9412DiyarbakırIstanbul
  1. Diyarbakır

    Born 1870/71 (AH 1287)

  2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    First work 1893/94 (AH 1311); 1893 to 1902 (AH 1311 to 1319)

    Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibi

    1,000 to 4,650 kuruş a month; entries in 9 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
02,0004,0006,0001893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13194,650 kuruşMabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibi
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0002,0005,0001893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 1319This 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 İsmail Hakkı Bey against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1893/941,50040051090%
1894/951,50040053089%
1895/962,00040057592%
1896/972,00045050092%
1897/982,40040048095%
1898/992,90040050096%
1899/19002,90040050697%
1900/013,90040052397%
1901/024,65040058097%

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 İsmail Hakkı Bey, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1893/94AH 1311First workIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,000first-salary field
1893 to 1902AH 1311 to 1319Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibi
16 entries
YearSalary
1893/941,000
1893/941,500
1894/951,500
1895/961,500
1895/962,000
1896/972,000
1896/971,900
1897/981,900
1897/982,400
1898/992,400
1898/992,900
1899/19002,900
1900/012,900
1900/013,900
1901/023,900
1901/024,650
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1,000 to 4,650

Record

Personal

Born
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Birthplace
Diyarbakır

First work

Year
1893/94 (AH 1311)

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 430 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, 405 have a recorded salary; İsmail Hakkı Bey had the 38th highest salary of them.

All 1,057 officials with entries in Istanbul

Same birthplace

Of the 45 officials born in Diyarbakır, 42 have a recorded salary; İsmail Hakkı Bey had the 13th highest salary of them.

The page of Diyarbakır, with the 45 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 196 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311), 178 have a recorded salary; İsmail Hakkı Bey had the 5th highest salary of them.

All 196 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of İsmail Hakkı Bey
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1893/94AH 1311Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1893/94AH 1311Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1894/95AH 1312Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1895/96AH 1313Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,500Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1895/96AH 1313Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1896/97AH 1314Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1896/97AH 1314Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1897/98AH 1315Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)1,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1897/98AH 1315Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1898/99AH 1316Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1898/99AH 1316Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1899/1900AH 1317Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1900/01AH 1318Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)2,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1900/01AH 1318Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)3,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1901/02AH 1319Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)3,900Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
1901/02AH 1319Mabeyn-i Hümayun kâtibiIstanbul (Dersaadet)4,650Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.999
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 İsmail Hakkı Bey 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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