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Mehmed Tevfik 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

Mehmed Tevfik Efendi was born in İstoloça, Hersek Sancağı in 1852/53 (AH 1269). The first salary was 245 kuruş a month. From the first annual entry, for 1879/80, to 1896/97, every annual entry places Mehmed Tevfik in the same post, Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveli, in Bitlis.

The salary went from 480 kuruş a month in 1879/80 to 600 in 1885/86, the peak, in Bitlis, when two in three paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1896/97.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
02004006001879/80AH 12971880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 1314600 kuruşBitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveli
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0002,0001879/80AH 12971880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 1314This 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 Mehmed Tevfik Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1879/8048040050056%
1880/81480400492.559%
1881/8248040050059%
1882/8348040055058%
1883/8448040064059%
1884/8548040064058%
1885/8660040060066%
1886/8760040060066%
1887/8860040060064%
1888/896004001,40066%
1889/9060040060066%
1890/9160040055065%
1891/9260040050065%
1892/9360040060065%
1893/9460040040065%
1894/9560040040065%
1895/9660040060064%
1896/976004501,70063%

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 Mehmed Tevfik Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First work245first-salary field
1879 to 1897AH 1297 to 1314Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveli
31 entries
YearSalary
1879/80480
1880/81480
1881/82480
1881/8275
1882/83480
1882/8375
1883/84480
1883/8475
1884/85480
1884/8575
1885/86480
1885/8675
1885/86600
1886/8775
1886/87600
1887/8875
1887/88600
1888/8975
1888/89600
1889/9075
1889/90600
1890/9175
1890/91600
1890/91
1891/92600
1892/93600
1893/94600
1894/95600
1895/96600
1896/97600
1896/97585
Bitlis480 to 585

Record

Personal

Born
1852/53 (AH 1269)
Birthplace
İstoloça, Hersek Sancağı

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 27 officials with entries in Bitlis in the same years, 24 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Tevfik Efendi had the 16th highest salary of them.

All 50 officials with entries in Bitlis

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 207 officials whose first annual entry is for 1879/80 (AH 1297), 191 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Tevfik Efendi had the 66th highest salary of them.

All 207 officials whose first annual entry is for 1879/80 (AH 1297)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Tevfik Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1879/80AH 1297Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1880/81AH 1298Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1881/82AH 1299Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1881/82AH 1299Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1882/83AH 1300Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1882/83AH 1300Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1883/84AH 1301Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1883/84AH 1301Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1884/85AH 1302Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1884/85AH 1302Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1885/86AH 1303Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis480Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1885/86AH 1303Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1885/86AH 1303Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1886/87AH 1304Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1886/87AH 1304Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1887/88AH 1305Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1887/88AH 1305Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1888/89AH 1306Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1888/89AH 1306Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1889/90AH 1307Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1889/90AH 1307Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1890/91AH 1308Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimiBitlis75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1890/91AH 1308Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1890/91AH 1308Bitlis Rüşdiyesi Rik'a muallimi (İnfisal)BitlisAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1891/92AH 1309Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1892/93AH 1310Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1893/94AH 1311Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1894/95AH 1312Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1895/96AH 1313Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1896/97AH 1314Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis600Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1896/97AH 1314Bitlis Rüşdiyesi muallim-i evveliBitlis585Affiliation not recordedSelected 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.
Recorded values of Mehmed Tevfik 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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