Mehmet Salih Efendi

Mehmet Salih Efendi was born in Lüleburgaz in 1878 (AH 1295). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as ciftci.

Schooling recorded: Darüşşafaka, with 12 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Beyoğlu in 1904/05 (AH 1322). The official was then about 26 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 300 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1904/05, the official was about 26 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1904/05, shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Beyoğlu, with 300 kuruş a month.

The highest salary, 400 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1905/06 as Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti. 38 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 475 kuruş. Over 3 years with a salary the median is 400 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and no cuts. The largest rise, 100 kuruş, is seen in 1905/06. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 15.47 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1906/07, when 39 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.