Mehmet Şevki 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
The life of Mehmet Şevki Efendi began in Kemah. Work began in Kemah in 1888/89 (AH 1306), on a first salary of 150 kuruş. The first annual entry, for 1888/89, places Mehmet Şevki in Kemah, the birthplace, as posta kâtibi, where the entries run to 1892/93. The lists have no entry for 1889 to 1892. Mehmet Şevki then moved to Konya in 1895/96. The last entries, from 1896 to 1899, name Mehmet Şevki as mahkeme kayıt kâtibi, with no place.
Pay rose from 150 kuruş a month in 1888/89 to a peak of 300 in 1896/97, when 26 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over four years the salaries add up to 12,000 kuruş, 60 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1898/99.
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.
Not on the map, as no position is recorded: stop 2 (Kemah ağnam muhasebesi), stop 4 (Şehirkale Mahkemesi), stop 5 (Tuz memlehası).
First work 1888/89 (AH 1306); 1888 to 1893 (AH 1306 to 1310)
posta kâtibi 1888/89 (AH 1306); posta kâtibi (muvakkat) (İnfisal) 1892/93 (AH 1310)
150 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years
No annual entry for 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309).
Kemah ağnam muhasebesi as worded, no place record not on the map
1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)
posta kolcusu (muvakkat)
entries in 2 years
Şehirkale Mahkemesi as worded, no place record not on the map
1896/97 (AH 1314)
mahkeme kayıt kâtibi
300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Tuz memlehası as worded, no place record not on the map
1898/99 (AH 1316)
No annual entry for 1897/98 (AH 1315) before it.
memleha mahkemesi kâtibi
300 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year
Career and salary#
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
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89 | 150 | 400 | 400 | 10% | |
| 1895/96 | 250 | 400 | 300 | 20% | |
| 1896/97 | 300 | 450 | 26% | ||
| 1898/99 | 300 | 400 | 27% |
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.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89AH 1306 | First work | Kemah | 150first-salary field |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | posta kâtibi | Kemah | 150 |
| No annual entry: 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309) | |||
| 1892/93AH 1310 | posta kâtibi (muvakkat) (İnfisal) | Kemah | |
| 1893 to 1895AH 1311 to 1312 | posta kolcusu (muvakkat) | ||
| 1895/96AH 1313 | kâtip (muvakkat) | Konya | 250 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | mahkeme kayıt kâtibi | 300 | |
| No annual entry: 1897/98 (AH 1315) | |||
| 1898/99AH 1316 | memleha mahkemesi kâtibi | 300 | |
Record#
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 place, same years
Of the 6 officials with entries in Kemah in the same years, 5 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şevki Efendi had the lowest salary of them.
- Oskehan Pertev Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 1,400 kuruş
- İsmail Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 1,300 kuruş
- İbrahim Vasfi Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 800 kuruş
- Yusuf Nâibi Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 700 kuruş
- Yusuf Cemal Efendi1 shared year; no salary recorded
Same birthplace
Of the 69 officials born in Kemah, 49 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şevki 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
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 173 officials whose first annual entry is for 1888/89 (AH 1306), 155 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Şevki Efendi had the 102nd highest salary of them.
- Yusuf Cemal Efendifirst entry in Kemah; no salary recorded
- Mustafa Efendifirst annual entry 1888/89 (AH 1306); highest salary 700 kuruş
- Hüseyin Efendifirst entry in Ergani; no salary recorded
- Muhtar Efendifirst entry in Krujë (Akçahisar); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Ahmed Muhtar Efendifirst annual entry 1888/89 (AH 1306); highest salary 750 kuruş
All 173 officials whose first annual entry is for 1888/89 (AH 1306)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89AH 1306 | posta kâtibi | Kemah | 150 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | posta kâtibi (muvakkat) (İnfisal) | Kemah | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1893/94AH 1311 | posta kolcusu (muvakkat) | Kemah ağnam muhasebesi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1894/95AH 1312 | posta kolcusu (muvakkat) | Kemah ağnam muhasebesi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1894/95AH 1312 | posta kolcusu (muvakkat) (Nakil) | Kemah ağnam muhasebesi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1894/95AH 1312 | memleha muvakkat kolcusu | Tayin memlehası | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1895/96AH 1313 | kâtip (muvakkat) | Konya | 250 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | mahkeme kayıt kâtibi | Şehirkale Mahkemesi | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | mahkeme kayıt kâtibi (İnfisal) | Şehirkale Mahkemesi | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1898/99AH 1316 | memleha mahkemesi kâtibi | Tuz memlehası | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | ||
| 1898/99AH 1316 | memleha mahkeme kâtibi | Çorlu memlehası | 300 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records |
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.
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|
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.
- Origin of the record: Source collection.
Subjects
- List of Ottoman officials (Osmanlı memurları listesi)
- Collective biography (kolektif biyografi)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)