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Mehmed Murad Bey

Born 1856/57 (AH 1273) · Hersek · Dated entries 1876 to 1910 (AH 1293 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 4 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1HersekIstanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Hersek

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

  1. 1

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Hersek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Hazîne Enderûn-ı Hümâyûn hademesi

      83 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1877/78 (AH 1294) · 6 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Hazîne Enderûn-ı Hümâyûn hademesi

      83 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazîne-i Hümâyûn Süfre Koğuşu nöbetçibaşısı (İstifa)

      Calculated age 26

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 21 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Padişahın hususi hizmeti

      320 kuruşCalculated age 34

    2. Padişahın başberberi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 54

    All 23 recorded entries in this stage →

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1876/77 (AH 1293)83420150 to 2,0003.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)143450150 to 1,8009.8%1160
1878 (AH 1295)210450150 to 2,00019.3%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)210400150 to 2,00017.2%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)210400180 to 1,80014.6%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)168400160 to 1,50010.6%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)180400150 to 1,50012.3%1489
1889/90 (AH 1307)320400130 to 1,50038.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)320400125 to 1,50038.2%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)320400140 to 1,60038.0%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)320400135 to 1,50037.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)320400140 to 1,40037.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)320400140 to 1,50037.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)320400140 to 1,50037.2%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)320450150 to 1,57535.5%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)320400140 to 1,42538.4%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)320400144 to 1,40037.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)320400140 to 1,44037.5%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)320400140 to 1,50038.2%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)2,000400150 to 1,52092.4%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)2,000400150 to 1,50093.8%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)2,000405150 to 1,45093.5%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)2,000400135 to 1,50092.8%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)2,000430125 to 1,50093.0%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)2,000450150 to 1,52592.8%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)2,000460135 to 1,61591.9%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)2,000400150 to 2,00090.0%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)2,000600200 to 2,00086.0%1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1876 to 1910 (AH 1293 to 1327)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1889 to 1910 (AH 1307 to 1327)
  2. 1877 to 1882 (AH 1294 to 1299)
  3. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1294)
  4. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  5. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Enderun-ı Hümayun Mektebi [source]

Qualification Şahâdetnâme alamamış [1]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

    DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 224, 225

Read the original source accounts · 35 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 28 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 35 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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