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Sove 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

Sove Efendi was born in Nevşehir in 1859/60 (AH 1276) into the Hristiyan community; the father was a merchant (tüccar). The schooling was at a Greek Orthodox school (Rum Mektebi).

Sove began work in Nevşehir in 1880/81, at about 21. The first annual entry, for 1880/81, places Sove in Nevşehir, the birthplace, as Maliye kalemi görevlisi. The lists have no entry for 1881 to 1886. The last entries, from 1886 to 1890, name Sove as Sandık sarrafı, with no place.

Pay rose from 300 kuruş a month in 1886/87 to a peak of 400 in 1889/90, when 46 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1889/90.

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. Nevşehir

    Born 1859/60 (AH 1276); First work 1880/81 (AH 1298); 1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Maliye kalemi görevlisi

    entries in 1 year

  2. Mağden as worded, no place record

    1886 to 1890 (AH 1304 to 1307)

    No annual entry for 1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303) before it.

    Sandık sarrafı

    300 to 400 kuruş a month; entries in 4 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry01002003004001880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 1307400 kuruşSandık sarrafı
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 1307This 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 Sove Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1886/8730040028%
1887/8830040028%
1888/8930040029%
1889/9040040046%

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 Sove Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1880/81AH 1298First workNevşehir
1880/81AH 1298Maliye kalemi görevlisiNevşehir
No annual entry: 1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
1886 to 1890AH 1304 to 1307Sandık sarrafı
5 entries
YearSalary
1886/87300
1887/88300
1888/89300
1889/90300
1889/90400
300 to 400

Record

Personal

Born
1859/60 (AH 1276)
Birthplace
Nevşehir
Community
Hristiyan
Nationality as recorded
Rum
Father's occupation
Tüccar

Education

School
Rum MektebiGreek Orthodox (Rum) school

First work

Year
1880/81 (AH 1298)

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 4 officials with entries in Nevşehir in the same years, Sove Efendi had the 3rd highest salary.

All 21 officials with entries in Nevşehir

Same school

Of the 17 officials with Rum Mektebi among their schools, 15 have a recorded salary; Sove Efendi had the 9th highest salary of them.

All 17 officials with Rum Mektebi

Same birthplace

Of the 19 officials born in Nevşehir, 18 have a recorded salary; Sove Efendi had the 13th highest salary of them.

The page of Nevşehir, with the 19 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 182 officials whose first annual entry is for 1880/81 (AH 1298), 162 have a recorded salary; Sove Efendi had the 102nd highest salary of them.

All 182 officials whose first annual entry is for 1880/81 (AH 1298)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Sove Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1880/81AH 1298Maliye kalemi görevlisiNevşehirAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records127 CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 165.
1886/87AH 1304Sandık sarrafıMağden300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records127 CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 165.
1887/88AH 1305Sandık sarrafıMağden300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records127 CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 165.
1888/89AH 1306Sandık sarrafıMağden300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records127 CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 165.
1889/90AH 1307Sandık sarrafıMağden300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records127 CDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267. Ayrıca Bkz. Filiz Kılıç -Tuncay Bülbül, “ Biyografik Kaynaklara ve Sicill-i Ahval Kayıtlarına Göre Osmanlı Yönetim ve Aydınlanmasında Nevşehir’’, Türkiye Barolar Birliği Yayınları, Ankara 2017, s. 165.
1889/90AH 1307Sandık sarrafıHacıbektaş400Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsCDA. DH. SAİD. 56 /267.
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 Sove 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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