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Lütfi 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

Lütfi Efendi was born in Sivas in 1876/77 (AH 1293). The annual lists begin in 1897/98, with Lütfi in the correspondence office (Tahrirat Kalemi) and no place named.

Pay rose from 120 kuruş a month in 1897/98 to a peak of 360 in 1904/05, when 40 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over four years the salaries add up to 9,240 kuruş, 47 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1904/05.

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.

  1. Sivas

    Born 1876/77 (AH 1293)

  2. Kırşehir sancağı tahrirat kalemi as worded, no place record

    1897 to 1902 (AH 1315 to 1319)

    Tahrirat Kalemi 1897 to 1901 (AH 1315 to 1318); tahrirat kalemi katibi 1901/02 (AH 1319)

    90 to 120 kuruş a month; entries in 5 years

  3. Şabanözü nahiyesi as worded, no place record

    1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322)

    No annual entry for 1902/03 (AH 1320) before it.

    sandık emini

    200 to 360 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry01002003004001897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 1322360 kuruşTahrirat Kalemisandık emini
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 1322This officialMedian, all officials

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 Lütfi Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1897/981204006%
1901/02904004%
1903/0420040515%
1904/0536040040%

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 Lütfi Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1897 to 1901AH 1315 to 1318Tahrirat Kalemi
4 entries
YearSalary
1897/98120
1898/99
1899/1900
1900/01
120
1901/02AH 1319tahrirat kalemi katibi90
No annual entry: 1902/03 (AH 1320)
1903 to 1905AH 1321 to 1322sandık emini
2 entries
YearSalary
1903/04200
1904/05360
200 to 360

Record

Personal

Born
1876/77 (AH 1293)
Birthplace
Sivas

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 job title, same years

Of the 2 officials with the title Tahrirat Kalemi in the same years, Lütfi Efendi had the lowest salary.

All 16 officials with the title Tahrirat Kalemi

Same birthplace

Of the 399 officials born in Sivas, 282 have a recorded salary; Lütfi Efendi had the 183rd highest salary of them.

The page of Sivas, with the 399 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315), 150 have a recorded salary; Lütfi Efendi had the 79th highest salary of them.

All 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Lütfi Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1897/98AH 1315Tahrirat KalemiKırşehir sancağı tahrirat kalemi120Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records398 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
1898/99AH 1316Tahrirat KalemiKırşehir sancağı tahrirat kalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records398 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
1899/1900AH 1317Tahrirat KalemiKırşehir sancağı tahrirat kalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records398 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
1900/01AH 1318Tahrirat KalemiKırşehir sancağı tahrirat kalemiAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records398 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
1901/02AH 1319tahrirat kalemi katibiKırşehir sancağı tahrirat kalemi90Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records398 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
1903/04AH 1321sandık eminiŞabanözü nahiyesi200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records398 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
1904/05AH 1322sandık eminiÇerkez kazası360Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsDH.SAİD.d.nr.00145,s.259
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 Lütfi 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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