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Mehmed 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 Efendi was born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) in 1869/70 (AH 1286). At about 19, in 1888/89, Mehmed began work. The first annual entry, for 1892/93, names Mehmed as Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi mülazımı, with no place.

The salary went from 100 kuruş a month in 1892/93 to 300 in 1898/99, the peak, when 27 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over seven years the salaries add up to 10,800 kuruş, 31 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1898/99.

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. Karahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı as worded, no place record

    1892 to 1899 (AH 1310 to 1316)

    Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi mülazımı

    100 to 300 kuruş a month; entries in 7 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003001892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 1316300 kuruşDefter-i Hâkânî Kalemi mülazımı
Salary against the medians of the same year
1002005001892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 1316This 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 Mehmed Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1892/931004004%
1893/941004004%
1894/951004005%
1895/961004004%
1896/971004503%
1897/981004004%
1898/9930040027%

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 Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1888/89AH 1306First work
1892 to 1899AH 1310 to 1316Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi mülazımı
9 entries
YearSalary
1892/93
1892/93100
1893/94100
1894/95100
1895/96100
1896/97100
1897/98100
1898/99100
1898/99300
300

Record

Personal

Born
1869/70 (AH 1286)

First work

Year
1888/89 (AH 1306)

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 125 officials born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), 117 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 76th highest salary of them.

The page of Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), with the 125 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 166 officials whose first annual entry is for 1892/93 (AH 1310), 149 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Efendi had the 80th highest salary of them.

All 166 officials whose first annual entry is for 1892/93 (AH 1310)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmed Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1892/93AH 1310Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi mülazımıKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağıAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1892/93AH 1310Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1893/94AH 1311Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1894/95AH 1312Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1895/96AH 1313Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1896/97AH 1314Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1897/98AH 1315Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1898/99AH 1316Defter-i Hâkânî Kalemi ikinci kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
1898/99AH 1316Evkaf kâtibiKarahisar-ı Sâhib sancağı300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records
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 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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