Mehmet Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Dated entries 1899 to 1909 (AH 1317 to 1326)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Places and reading notes

Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)
Edirne

10 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

The life

Mehmet Efendi was born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib). The father’s occupation was Esnaf. Schooling included Sıbyan Mektebi; Karahisar-ı Sâhib Rüştiyesi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) in 1899/1900 (AH 1317). Dated career entries span 1899/1900 (AH 1317) to 1908/09 (AH 1326) across 10 AH years, beginning with Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) and Edirne.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 142 kuruş in 1899/1900 (AH 1317) to 350 kuruş in 1908/09 (AH 1326); the highest recorded monthly rate is 350 kuruş in 1908/09 (AH 1326).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Year not recorded^[source]
Father’s occupation: Esnaf^[source]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi; Karahisar-ı Sâhib Rüştiyesi^[source]
First work: 1899/1900 (AH 1317) · Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)^[source]
First salary: 142 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

10
Dated AH years: 2
Career place names: 10
Salary years: 142 → 350
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 350
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 40.5%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1899/1900 (AH 1317) to 1908/09 (AH 1326); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1908/09 (AH 1326).

Life and career

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Follow 3 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)

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Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

1
1899/1900 (AH 1317)
Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  142 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2
1900/01 (AH 1318) · 8 recorded years
Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)
AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  142 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9. Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1908/09 (AH 1326)
Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) / Edirne
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)
  Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı
  150 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Edirne
  Telgraf ve posta merkezi posta nakliye memuru
  350 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Birth · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Year not recorded

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only

Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values

Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	142	400	140 to 1,440	10.2%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	150	400	140 to 1,500	10.3%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	150	400	150 to 1,520	9.8%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	150	400	150 to 1,500	9.0%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	150	405	150 to 1,450	9.9%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	150	400	135 to 1,500	10.5%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	150	430	125 to 1,500	11.4%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	150	450	150 to 1,525	10.0%	1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)	150	460	135 to 1,615	10.9%	1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)	350	400	150 to 2,000	40.5%	1232

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)10
1899 to 1909 (AH 1317 to 1326)
Edirne1
1908/09 (AH 1326)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)142 to 150
Edirne350

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title

Telgraf ve posta merkezi muharrerat muvassalı10
1899 to 1909 (AH 1317 to 1326)
Telgraf ve posta merkezi posta nakliye memuru1
1908/09 (AH 1326)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)124 other officialsAli Rıza Bey born 1825/26 (AH 1241); highest salary 7,000 kuruş
Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa)4 other officialsMehmed Cemal Efendi 3 shared years; highest salary 3,000 kuruş
1899/1900 (AH 1317)143 other officialsMehmet Arif Efendi first entry in Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki); highest salary 150 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Karahisar-ı Sâhib Rüştiyesi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace: Afyonkarahisar^[source]
Birth province: Hüdavendigâr^[source]
Father’s occupation: Esnaf^[source]

Education and languages

Turkish: Kitâbet^[source]okur yazar^[1]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi; Karahisar-ı Sâhib Rüştiyesi^[source]
Education level equivalent: 7^[source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place: Cisr-i Mustafapaşa^[source]Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa^[1]
First-salary field: 142 kuruş (personal first-salary field)^[source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year: 1899/1900 (AH 1317)^[source]

Sources and evidence

Sicili Ahval Defterlerine göre Afyonlu devlet adamları
İPEK KÜLTEKİN · 2021 · Pages 123

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