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Mehmet Sabit 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

Mehmet Sabit Efendi was born in Kemah; the father was a gendarme (jandarma). The first salary was 560 kuruş a month. The annual lists begin in 1909/10 (AH 1327), with Mehmet Sabit as kaymakam vekili and no place named.

Pay rose from 1,000 kuruş a month in 1909/10 to a peak of 6,000 in 1910/11, when 98 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1910/11.

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.

  1. Refahiye

    First work here

  2. Dersim as worded, no place record

    1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)

    kaymakam vekili

    1,000 to 6,000 kuruş a month; entries in 2 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
02,0004,0006,0001909/10AH 13271910/11AH 13286,000 kuruşkaymakam vekili
Salary against the medians of the same year
5001,0002,0005,00010,0001909/10AH 13271910/11AH 1328This officialMedian, all officials

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 Sabit Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1909/101,00060068%
1910/116,00050098%

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 Sabit Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
First workRefahiye560first-salary field
1909 to 1911AH 1327 to 1328kaymakam vekili
2 entries
YearSalary
1909/101,000
1910/116,000
1,000 to 6,000

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Kemah
Father's occupation
jandarma

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 birthplace

Of the 69 officials born in Kemah, 49 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Sabit Efendi had the highest salary of them.

The page of Kemah, with the 69 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; Mehmet Sabit Efendi had the 2nd 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 Mehmet Sabit Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1909/10AH 1327kaymakam vekiliDersim1,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records100 BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 179/174.
1910/11AH 1328piyade ve teftiş kalemi memuru4. Ordu Osmanlı komutanlığı6,000Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records100 BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 179/174.
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 Sabit 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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