Mehmed Salih 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
Mehmed Salih Efendi was born in Ohrid (Ohri). Every annual entry from 1885/86 (AH 1303) to 1903/04 places Mehmed Salih in the same post, postahane emanet-i mevrude memuru, in Istanbul.
Pay rose from 400 kuruş a month in 1885/86 to a peak of 600 in 1901/02, in Istanbul, when two in three paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1903/04.
Career and salary#
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
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885/86 | 400 | 400 | 460 | 44% | |
| 1892/93 | 550 | 400 | 500 | 64% | |
| 1896/97 | 495 | 450 | 500 | 52% | |
| 1901/02 | 600 | 400 | 580 | 66% |
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.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | ||
| 1885/86AH 1303 | postahane emanet-i mevrude memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 |
| No annual entry: 1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305) | |||
| 1888/89AH 1306 | postahane emanet-i mevrude memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | |
| No annual entry: 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309) | |||
| 1892/93AH 1310 | postahane tahrirat kalemi müsevvidi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 550 |
| No annual entry: 1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313) | |||
| 1896/97AH 1314 | postahane tahrirat kalemi müsevvidi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 495 |
| No annual entry: 1897 to 1901 (AH 1315 to 1318) | |||
| 1901/02AH 1319 | postahane muayene memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 600 |
| No annual entry: 1902/03 (AH 1320) | |||
| 1903/04AH 1321 | postahane muayene memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | |
Record#
Personal
- Birthplace
- Ohrid (Ohri)
First work
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
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 483 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, 464 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Salih Efendi had the 296th highest salary of them.
- İbrahim Hayrullah Beğ6 shared years; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Said6 shared years; highest salary 10,000 kuruş
- Abdullah Sadık Bey6 shared years; highest salary 6,600 kuruş
- Abdurrahman Zeynüttin Efendi6 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
- Mehmed Reşad Bey6 shared years; highest salary 4,500 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 68 officials born in Ohrid (Ohri), 61 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Salih Efendi had the 25th highest salary of them.
- TEVFĠK EFENDĠborn 1841/42 (AH 1257); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendiborn 1844/45 (AH 1260); highest salary 350 kuruş
- Abdülhalim Efendiborn 1852/53 (AH 1269); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Halil Hilmi Efendiborn 1863/64 (AH 1280); highest salary 1,264 kuruş
- Hasan Tahsin Efendiborn 1864/65 (AH 1281); highest salary 800 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 181 officials whose first annual entry is for 1885/86 (AH 1303), 164 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Salih Efendi had the 63rd highest salary of them.
- Avramaki Papa Dopulos Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 4,500 kuruş
- Mahmud Necip Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 1,400 kuruş
- Ali Haydar Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 1,400 kuruş
- Abdulkerim Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
- Edhem Beğ (İbrahim)first entry in Istanbul; highest salary 20,000 kuruş
All 181 officials whose first annual entry is for 1885/86 (AH 1303)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885/86AH 1303 | postahane emanet-i mevrude memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | postahane emanet-i mevrude memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1892/93AH 1310 | postahane tahrirat kalemi müsevvidi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 550 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | postahane tahrirat kalemi müsevvidi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 495 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | postahane muayene memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | postahane muayene memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records |
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.
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|
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.
- Origin of the record: Source collection.
Subjects
- List of Ottoman officials (Osmanlı memurları listesi)
- Collective biography (kolektif biyografi)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)