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Yusuf Enis Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Erzincan · Dated entries 1877 to 1910 (AH 1294 to 1327)

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD, 455/82

The career, year by year

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

Follow 8 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.

1ErzincanAmasyaIstanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 8 · Erzincan

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

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Erzincan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

    2. meclis-i idare kalemi mukayyid refiki

      75 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295) · 4 recorded years

    Erzincan

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. meclis-i idare kalemi mukayyid refiki

      75 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Dördüncü Ordu nizamiye yoklama kalemi katibi

      100 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Erzincan / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Erzincan

      Dördüncü Ordu nizamiye yoklama kalemi katibi

      100 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Erkan-ı Harbiye Dairesi ikinci şube nizamiye kalemi katibi

      100 kuruş

  4. 4

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Amasya

    1. aşar ve ağnam idaresi üçüncü katibi

      140 kuruş

  5. 5

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Amasya / Köprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Köprü

    1. Amasya

      bidayet mahkemesi kalemi mülazımı (Nakil)

      Recorded service ending

    2. Köprü

      bidayet mahkemesi mukavelat muharriri

  6. 6

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Amasya / Köprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Köprü

    1. Amasya

      Ziraat Bankası şubesi mülazımı

    2. Köprü

      Ziraat Bankası sandığı muhasebe katibi

      400 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Erzincan

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. orman teftiş muavini vekili

      300 kuruş

    2. orman teftiş muavini vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  8. 8

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 12 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ziraat Bankası merkez muhasebe kalemi mukayyid refiki

      450 kuruş

    2. Ziraat Bankası merkez muhasebe ser mukayyidi

      1,200 kuruş

    All 24 recorded entries in this stage →

4 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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

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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
1877/78 (AH 1294)75450150 to 1,8003.3%1160
1878 (AH 1295)100450150 to 2,0003.9%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)100400150 to 2,0003.2%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)100400180 to 1,8004.0%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)100400160 to 1,5004.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)100400150 to 1,5004.4%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)140400150 to 1,4008.1%1655
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)450400144 to 1,40052.0%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)500400140 to 1,44055.3%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)700400140 to 1,50074.0%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)800400150 to 1,52075.7%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)700400150 to 1,50073.3%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,000405150 to 1,45081.4%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)700400135 to 1,50072.5%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)700430125 to 1,50070.3%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)1,100450150 to 1,52582.0%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)700460135 to 1,61566.8%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)700400150 to 2,00066.8%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)1,200600200 to 2,00075.1%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. 1898 to 1910 (AH 1316 to 1327)
  2. 1877 to 1897 (AH 1294 to 1314)
  3. 1882 to 1896 (AH 1300 to 1313)
  4. Köprü2
    1886 to 1896 (AH 1304 to 1313)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Erzincan75 to 300
  2. Köprü400

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. 1898 to 1910 (AH 1316 to 1327)
  2. 1878 to 1882 (AH 1295 to 1299)
  3. 1901 to 1910 (AH 1319 to 1327)
  4. 1904 to 1910 (AH 1322 to 1327)
  5. 1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)
  6. 1882/83 (AH 1300)

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 sıbyan mektebi; Kars rüşdiyesi; Erzincan rüşdiyesi [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına Göre Erzincanlı memurlar

    ENGİN ADAK · 2008 · Pages 88, 89

    128 BOA, DH. SAİD, 455/82; BOA, DH. SAİD, 455/82

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 22 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 41 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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