Ali Abdi Efendi

Ali Abdi Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1864/65 (AH 1281). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Sıbyan Mektebi, with 4 years of schooling recorded. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Edirne in 1892/93 (AH 1310). The official was then about 28 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 1892/93, the official was about 28 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1892/93, shows Muhabere Memuru in Ivaylovgrad (Ortaköy), with 400 kuruş a month. In 1894/95 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Eskişehir, the salary going from 400 to 142 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Ivaylovgrad). No annual entry is recorded for 1893/94.

The highest salary, 475 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1895/96 as Muhabere Memuru. 45 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 5 years with a salary the median is 475 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and 1 cut. The largest rise, 333 kuruş, is seen in 1895/96. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 3.5 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1897/98, when 47 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.

A death is recorded under 1898/99 (AH 1316): the year of the annual list that holds the status word Vefat, not a date of death.