Kirkoris Kanunyan 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
Kirkoris Kanunyan Efendi was born in Bursa in 1848/49 (AH 1265) into the Hristiyan community; the father's occupation was "İplikçi". At about 31, in 1879/80, Kirkoris Kanunyan began work in Bursa, on a first salary of 450 kuruş. Every annual entry from 1879/80 to 1898/99 places Kirkoris Kanunyan in the same post, sandık sarraflığı, in Bursa, the birthplace. Of the 2,755 officials whose entries span 20 years or more, fewer than 5 per cent stayed in one place throughout.
Pay rose from 600 kuruş a month in 1879/80 to a peak of 1,000 in 1898/99, in Bursa, when 83 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over 17 years the salaries add up to 163,200 kuruş, 2 times what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1898/99.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1879/80 | 600 | 400 | 380 | 65% | |
| 1880/81 | 600 | 400 | 380 | 68% | |
| 1881/82 | 700 | 400 | 380 | 73% | |
| 1882/83 | 700 | 400 | 368 | 74% | |
| 1883/84 | 700 | 400 | 400 | 74% | |
| 1884/85 | 600 | 400 | 400 | 67% | |
| 1885/86 | 700 | 400 | 400 | 73% | |
| 1889/90 | 800 | 400 | 380 | 77% | |
| 1890/91 | 900 | 400 | 350 | 78% | |
| 1891/92 | 900 | 400 | 350 | 78% | |
| 1892/93 | 900 | 400 | 340 | 79% | |
| 1893/94 | 900 | 400 | 377.5 | 80% | |
| 1894/95 | 900 | 400 | 350 | 79% | |
| 1895/96 | 900 | 400 | 300 | 79% | |
| 1896/97 | 900 | 450 | 300 | 78% | |
| 1897/98 | 900 | 400 | 300 | 81% | |
| 1898/99 | 1,000 | 400 | 350 | 83% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1879/80AH 1297 | First work | Bursa | 450first-salary field |
| 1879 to 1886AH 1297 to 1303 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 450 to 700 |
| No annual entry: 1886 to 1889 (AH 1304 to 1306) | |||
| 1889 to 1899AH 1307 to 1316 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 800 to 1,000 |
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 87 officials with entries in Bursa in the same years, 81 have a recorded salary; Kirkoris Kanunyan Efendi had the 23rd highest salary of them.
- İbrahim Hayri Efendi12 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmed Tahir Bey11 shared years; highest salary 2,000 kuruş
- Minas Efendi10 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Hacı Nazmi Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 2,500 kuruş
- Yanko Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 825 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 302 officials born in Bursa, 286 have a recorded salary; Kirkoris Kanunyan Efendi had the 80th highest salary of them.
- Ahmed Suphi Efendiborn 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 1,750 kuruş
- Hacı Mustafa Efendiborn 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 920 kuruş
- Mehmed Ne’şet Efendiborn 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Mehmed Said Efendiborn 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Muhyiddin Beyborn 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 1,500 kuruş
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; Kirkoris Kanunyan Efendi had the 37th highest salary of them.
- Selim Zühtü Efendifirst entry in Bursa; highest salary 400 kuruş
- İsmail Hakkı Efendifirst entry in Bursa; highest salary 570 kuruş
- Mehmed Cevdet Efendifirst entry in Bursa; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmed Efendifirst entry in Bursa; highest salary 700 kuruş
- Salih Sabri Efendifirst entry in Kastamonu; highest salary 2,000 kuruş
All 207 officials whose first annual entry is for 1879/80 (AH 1297)
Annual entries and original values
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1879/80AH 1297 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 450 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 700 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 700 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 700 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 600 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 700 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 800 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 800 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 900 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | sandık sarraflığı | Bursa | 1,000 | Affiliation not recorded | Selected canonical career records | 61/180; 357 |
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)