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Mehmed Sıdkı 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 Sıdkı Efendi was born in Bursa in 1888/89 (AH 1306), into the İslam community. At about 20, in 1909/10, Mehmed Sıdkı began work, on a first salary of 200 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1909/10, with Mehmed Sıdkı as bedel-i nakdi tahakkuk kitâbeti and no place named. Alongside, the lists for 1911/12 give a second post, in Uşak as refik-i evvellik.

The salary went from 200 kuruş a month in 1909/10 to 400 in 1911/12, the peak, in Uşak, when 16 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over four years the salaries add up to 14,400 kuruş, 44 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last 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 3 stops
birthplaceplace of annual entriesmove, with the year of the first entry there
1911/1213BursaUşak

Not on the map, as no position is recorded: stop 2 (Atranos kazası).

  1. Bursa

    Born 1888/89 (AH 1306)

  2. Atranos kazası as worded, no place record not on the map

    1909 to 1912 (AH 1327 to 1330)

    bedel-i nakdi tahakkuk kitâbeti

    200 to 300 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years

  3. Uşak

    1911/12 (AH 1330)

    refik-i evvellik

    400 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
01002003004001909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13281911AH 13291911/12AH 1330400 kuruşbedel-i nakdi tahakkuk kitâbetirefik-i evvellik
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001909/10AH 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 Mehmed Sıdkı Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1909/102006007%
1910/1130050020%
191130060016%
1911/124001,00045016%

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 Sıdkı Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1909/10AH 1327First work200first-salary field
1909 to 1912AH 1327 to 1330bedel-i nakdi tahakkuk kitâbeti
7 entries
YearSalary
1909/10200
1909/10200
1910/11200
1910/11250
1910/11300
1911300
1911/12300
200 to 300
1911/12AH 1330refik-i evvellikUşak400

Record

Personal

Born
1888/89 (AH 1306)
Birthplace
Bursa
Community
İslam

First work

Year
1909/10 (AH 1327)

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 2 officials with entries in Uşak in the same years, Mehmed Sıdkı Efendi had the lowest salary.

All 55 officials with entries in Uşak

Same birthplace

Of the 302 officials born in Bursa, 286 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Sıdkı Efendi had the 181st highest salary of them.

The page of Bursa, with the 302 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 131 officials whose first annual entry is for 1909/10 (AH 1327), 109 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Sıdkı Efendi had the 48th highest salary of them.

All 131 officials whose first annual entry is for 1909/10 (AH 1327)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Sıdkı Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1909/10AH 1327bedel-i nakdi tahakkuk kitâbetiAtranos kazası200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1909/10AH 1327cihet-i maliye200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1910/11AH 1328cihet-i maliye200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1910/11AH 1328cihet-i maliye250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1910/11AH 1328cihet-i maliye300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1911AH 1329cihet-i maliye300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1911/12AH 1330cihet-i maliye300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
1911/12AH 1330refik-i evvellikUşak400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records191/55; 55
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 Sıdkı 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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