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MEHMET AR İF EFEND İ

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 AR İF EFEND İ was born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib); the father's occupation was "Mutaf (kıl dokuyan esnaf)". The annual lists begin in 1908/09 (AH 1326), with MEHMET AR İF İ as Ziraat Bankası Sandığı Kitabet Refakat-i Saniyesi in Bolvadin. At the same time, from 1909 to 1912, the lists also place MEHMET AR İF İ in a post with no place named in the Banka Sandığı Muhasebe Kitabeti. Alongside, the lists for 1911/12 give a second post, in Afyonkarahisar as Ziraat Bankası Şubesi Mukayyit Sanisi.

Pay rose from 200 kuruş a month in 1908/09 to a peak of 300 in 1909/10, when 22 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, five years of salary come to 16,800 kuruş, 45 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1911/12.

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.

All 4 stops
first workplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
1908/091911/12124AfyonkarahisarBolvadin

Not on the map, as no position is recorded: stop 3 (Geyikler (Dinar)).

  1. Bolvadin

    1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)

    Ziraat Bankası Sandığı Kitabet Refakat-i Saniyesi

    200 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

  2. Geyikler (Dinar) as worded, no place record not on the map

    1909 to 1912 (AH 1327 to 1330)

    Banka Sandığı Muhasebe Kitabeti

    300 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years

  3. Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

    1911/12 (AH 1330)

    Ziraat Bankası Şubesi Mukayyit Sanisi

    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
01002003001908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13281911AH 13291911/12AH 1330300 kuruşZiraat Bankası Sandığı Kitabet Refakat-i SaniyesiBanka Sandığı Muhasebe Kitabeti
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13281911AH 13291911/12AH 1330This 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 MEHMET AR İF EFEND İ against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1908/0920040030012%
1909/1030060022%
1910/1130050020%
191130060016%
1911/123001,0009%

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 AR İF EFEND İ, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
1908 to 1910AH 1326 to 1327Ziraat Bankası Sandığı Kitabet Refakat-i Saniyesi
2 entries
YearSalary
1908/09200
1909/10200
Bolvadin200
1909 to 1912AH 1327 to 1330Banka Sandığı Muhasebe Kitabeti
5 entries
YearSalary
1909/10300
1910/11300
1910/11300
1911300
1911/12300
300
1911/12AH 1330Ziraat Bankası Şubesi Mukayyit SanisiAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)300

Record

Personal

Father's occupation
Mutaf (kıl dokuyan esnaf)

First work

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 Bolvadin in the same years, MEHMET AR İF EFEND İ had the 4th highest salary.

All 40 officials with entries in Bolvadin

Same birthplace

Of the 125 officials born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), 117 have a recorded salary; MEHMET AR İF EFEND İ had the 76th highest salary of them.

The page of Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), with the 125 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 158 officials whose first annual entry is for 1908/09 (AH 1326), 139 have a recorded salary; MEHMET AR İF EFEND İ had the 44th highest salary of them.

All 158 officials whose first annual entry is for 1908/09 (AH 1326)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of MEHMET AR İF EFEND İ
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1908/09AH 1326Ziraat Bankası Sandığı Kitabet Refakat-i SaniyesiBolvadin200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1909/10AH 1327Ziraat Bankası Sandığı Kitabet Refakat-i SaniyesiBolvadin200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1909/10AH 1327Banka Sandığı Muhasebe KitabetiGeyikler (Dinar)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1910/11AH 1328Banka Sandığı Muhasebe KitabetiGeyikler (Dinar)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1910/11AH 1328Banka Sandığı Muhasebe KitabetiAziziye300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1911AH 1329Banka Sandığı Muhasebe KitabetiAziziye300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1911/12AH 1330Banka Sandığı Muhasebe KitabetiAziziye300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
1911/12AH 1330Ziraat Bankası Şubesi Mukayyit SanisiAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records108 BOA, DH. SA İD, no. 159, s. 233.
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 AR İF EFEND İ 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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