Mehmed Ruhi 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 Ruhi Efendi was born in Arab in 1882/83 (AH 1300). At about 22, in 1905/06, Mehmed Ruhi began work, on a first salary of 80 kuruş. The first annual entry, for 1905/06, names Mehmed Ruhi as Fransizca Muallimi, with no place.

The salary went from 80 kuruş a month in 1905/06 to 900 in 1908/09, the peak, when 73 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1908/09.

Key numbers

Lifetime earnings2 years with a salary; 1.2 times the pay of an official on the median salary: 11,760 kuruş
Pay standingof the officials paid in the same years, mean of 2 years: Bottom 39%
Average salarya month (5,880 a year); median 490: 490 kuruş
Highest salarya month, in 1908/09: 900 kuruş
Years on record1905 to 1909, 3 with an entry: 4
Placesof the annual entries; 1 job title held: 0
First salary in the annual listsa month, in 1905/06: 80 kuruş
Salary growth a year1 rise, 0 cuts: 124.1%
Age at first workabout 22 at the first annual entry: About 22
Salary at first worka month, first-salary field of the record: 80 kuruş
Standing of the last salaryof the officials paid in 1908/09: Above 73%

Salaries are nominal monthly kuruş of the recorded years only; nothing is known about a year without an annual entry.

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.

Mercan Mekteb-i İdadîsi as worded, no place record
1905/06 (AH 1323)
Fransizca Muallimi
80 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası as worded, no place record
1906/07 (AH 1324)
Tercüme odası mülazımı
entries in 1 year
Atina ve Pire Başşehbenderhanesi as worded, no place record
1908/09 (AH 1326)
No annual entry for 1907/08 (AH 1325) before it.
Şehbender vekili ve kançılar
900 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years

Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry

Salary against the medians of the same year

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 Mehmed Ruhi Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
Year	Salary	Median, all officials	Median, same title	Median, same province	Paid less
1905/06	80	430			4%
1908/09	900	400			73%

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 Mehmed Ruhi Efendi, one row per stage
Years	Title	Salary (kuruş a month)
1905/06AH 1323	First work	80first-salary field
1905/06AH 1323	Fransizca Muallimi	80
1906/07AH 1324	Tercüme odası mülazımı
No annual entry: 1907/08 (AH 1325)
1908/09AH 1326	Şehbender vekili ve kançılar	900

Record

Personal

Born: 1882/83 (AH 1300)
Birthplace: Arab

First work

Year: 1905/06 (AH 1323)

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.

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 129 officials whose first annual entry is for 1905/06 (AH 1323), 114 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Ruhi Efendi had the 16th highest salary of them.

ABBAS EFENDİfirst annual entry 1905/06 (AH 1323); highest salary 125 kuruş
Halil Rıfat Beyfirst annual entry 1905/06 (AH 1323); highest salary 20 kuruş
Mehmet Efendifirst annual entry 1905/06 (AH 1323); highest salary 200 kuruş
Mehmet Rü ştü Efendifirst annual entry 1905/06 (AH 1323); highest salary 300 kuruş
Osman Refet Efendifirst annual entry 1905/06 (AH 1323); highest salary 1,500 kuruş

All 129 officials whose first annual entry is for 1905/06 (AH 1323)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Ruhi Efendi
Year	Title	Place	Kuruş a month	Institution	Source
1905/06AH 1323	Fransizca Muallimi	Mercan Mekteb-i İdadîsi	80	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records
1906/07AH 1324	Tercüme odası mülazımı	Bâbıâli Tercüme Odası		Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records
1908/09AH 1326	Şehbender vekili ve kançılar	Atina ve Pire Başşehbenderhanesi	900	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.

Recorded values of Mehmed Ruhi Efendi with their sources
Field	Recorded value	Source