Mehmet İsmet Efendi

Mehmet İsmet Efendi was born in Berat in 1887/88 (AH 1305). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as polis.

Schooling recorded: İdadi Mektebi, with 9 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 Lusne in 1903/04 (AH 1321). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 200 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1907/08, the official was about 19 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1907/08, shows Muvakkat Memuru in Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma), with 200 kuruş a month. In 1911 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Kütahya, the salary going from 250 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muvakkat Memuru in Blagoevgrad).

The highest salary, 500 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1911 as Seyyar Memur. 50 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 250 kuruş a month, with 2 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 250 kuruş, is seen in 1911. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 25.74 per cent a year on average.