Mehmet Arif 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

Mehmet Arif Efendi was born in Kemah; the father's occupation was "Posta tatarı". Work began in 1895/96 (AH 1313), on a first salary of 130 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1895/96, with Mehmet Arif as Zabıta nazırı and no place named. The lists have no entry for 1896 to 1902.

The salary went from 130 kuruş a month in 1895/96 to 300 in 1902/03, the peak, when 28 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over three years the salaries add up to 8,760 kuruş, 60 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1904/05.

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.

Place not recorded
1895/96 (AH 1313)
Zabıta nazırı
130 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Şam-ı Şerif as worded, no place record
1902/03 (AH 1320)
No annual entry for 1896 to 1902 (AH 1314 to 1319) before it.
Posta ve telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru
300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Kırtıl as worded, no place record
1904/05 (AH 1322)
No annual entry for 1903/04 (AH 1321) before it.
Merkez posta ve telgraf muhabere memuru
300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years

Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears 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 Mehmet Arif Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
Year	Salary	Median, all officials	Paid less
1895/96	130	400	8%
1902/03	300	400	28%
1904/05	300	400	29%

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 Mehmet Arif Efendi, one row per stage
Years	Title	Salary (kuruş a month)
1895/96AH 1313	First work	130first-salary field
1895/96AH 1313	Zabıta nazırı	130
No annual entry: 1896 to 1902 (AH 1314 to 1319)
1902/03AH 1320	Posta ve telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru	300
No annual entry: 1903/04 (AH 1321)
1904/05AH 1322	Merkez posta ve telgraf muhabere memuru	300

Record

Personal

Birthplace: Kemah
Father's occupation: Posta tatarı

First work

Year: 1895/96 (AH 1313)

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.

Same birthplace

Of the 69 officials born in Kemah, 49 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Arif Efendi had the 30th highest salary of them.

Ali Rıza Efendiborn 1838/39 (AH 1254); highest salary 1,445 kuruş
Ahmet Hamdi Efendiborn 1839/40 (AH 1255); highest salary 300 kuruş
Süleyman Hilmi Efendiborn 1840/41 (AH 1256); highest salary 1,120 kuruş
Hüseyin Besim Efendiborn 1842/43 (AH 1258); highest salary 1,200 kuruş
Tatar Ağası Zade Hafız Abdullah Efendiborn 1847/48 (AH 1264); highest salary 400 kuruş

The page of Kemah, with the 69 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 180 officials whose first annual entry is for 1895/96 (AH 1313), 162 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Arif Efendi had the 101st highest salary of them.

Cafer Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 400 kuruş
Süleyman Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 330 kuruş
Mustafa Nuri Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 400 kuruş
Maksud Mesrub Efendifirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
ABDULLAH SEMAVĠ EFENDĠfirst annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 200 kuruş

All 180 officials whose first annual entry is for 1895/96 (AH 1313)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Arif Efendi
Year	Title	Place	Kuruş a month	Institution	Source	Archive reference
1895/96AH 1313	Zabıta nazırı		130	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	94 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.115/175.
1902/03AH 1320	Posta ve telgraf merkezi muhabere memuru	Şam-ı Şerif	300	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	94 BOA. DH. SAİD. d.115/175.
1904/05AH 1322	Merkez posta ve telgraf muhabere memuru	Kırtıl	300	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	BOA. DH. SAİD. d.115/175.

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 Mehmet Arif Efendi with their sources
Field	Recorded value	Source