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Mustafa Asım 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 Mustafa Asım Efendi began in Sarajevo (Saraybosna); the father's occupation was "Askerî tüfenkçi". Mustafa Asım began work in 1892/93 (AH 1310), on a first salary of 180 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1892/93, with Mustafa Asım as Nahiye tahrirat kâtibi mülazımı and no place named. The last posts were in Salihli from 1894 to 1896.

Pay rose from 180 kuruş a month in 1892/93 to a peak of 240 in 1894/95, in Salihli, when 21 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, four years of salary come to 6,948 kuruş, 36 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1895/96.

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.

  1. Dağmarmara as worded, no place record

    1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)

    Nahiye tahrirat kâtibi mülazımı

    64 to 180 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

  2. Salihli

    1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)

    Kaza tahrirat kâtibi

    95 to 240 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003001892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 1313240 kuruşNahiye tahrirat kâtibi mülazımıKaza tahrirat kâtibi
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 1313This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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 Mustafa Asım Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1892/9318040013%
1893/94644003%
1894/9524040049021%
1895/96954004004%

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 Mustafa Asım Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1892/93AH 1310First work180first-salary field
1892 to 1894AH 1310 to 1311Nahiye tahrirat kâtibi mülazımı
2 entries
YearSalary
1892/93180
1893/9464
180 to 64
1894 to 1896AH 1312 to 1313Kaza tahrirat kâtibi
2 entries
YearSalary
1894/95240
1895/9695
Salihli240 to 95

Record

Personal

Father's occupation
Askerî tüfenkçi

First work

Year
1892/93 (AH 1310)

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 4 officials with entries in Salihli in the same years, Mustafa Asım Efendi had the 3rd highest salary.

All 16 officials with entries in Salihli

Same birthplace

Of the 10 officials born in Sarajevo (Saraybosna), 9 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Asım Efendi had the 7th highest salary of them.

The page of Sarajevo (Saraybosna), with the 10 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 166 officials whose first annual entry is for 1892/93 (AH 1310), 149 have a recorded salary; Mustafa Asım Efendi had the 114th highest salary of them.

All 166 officials whose first annual entry is for 1892/93 (AH 1310)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mustafa Asım Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1892/93AH 1310Nahiye tahrirat kâtibi mülazımıDağmarmara180Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records217 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 97/413. 146
1893/94AH 1311Nahiye müdür vekiliDağmarmara64Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records217 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 97/413. 146
1894/95AH 1312Kaza tahrirat kâtibiSalihli240Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records217 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 97/413. 146
1895/96AH 1313Maarif kâtibiSalihli95Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records217 BOA, DH.SAİD. d, 97/413. 146
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 Mustafa Asım Efendi with their sources
FieldRecorded valueSource
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.

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