İbrahim Efendi

İbrahim Efendi was born in Kazanlak (Kızanlık) in 1868/69 (AH 1285). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Darüşşafaka, with 12 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1889/90 (AH 1307). The official was then about 21 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 400 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1889/90, the official was about 21 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1889/90, shows Tahrirat Kalemi in Istanbul, with 400 kuruş a month. In 1892/93 the record shows Mevrude Memuru in Istanbul, with 400 kuruş a month (before: Tahrirat Kalemi in Istanbul). In 1901/02 the record shows Mekâtib Memuru in Istanbul, with 500 kuruş a month (before: Mevrude Memuru in Istanbul).

The highest salary, 600 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1904/05 as Mekâtib Memuru. 67 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 450 kuruş. Over 18 years with a salary the median is 430 kuruş a month, with 5 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 50 kuruş, is seen in 1903/04. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 2.41 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1906/07, when 65 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.