Official
İbrahim Selim Susa Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Beirut (Beyrut) in 1860/61 (AH 1277). On record 1878 to 1911, 20 annual entries.
Archive reference 5_129; 255
Life#
İbrahim Selim Susa Efendi was born in Beirut (Beyrut) in 1860/61 (AH 1277). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Halep Rusum-i Sitte Naziri.
Schooling recorded: Saint Benuva, with 9 years of schooling recorded, at a place worded Istanbul. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Arabic, with kitabet; French, with Kitabet; Greek, with tekellum; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1877/78 (AH 1294): telgraf. The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 3 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 250 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1878/79, the official was about 18 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1878/79, shows Ecnebiye Kalemi in Istanbul, with 250 kuruş a month. In 1881/82 the record shows Posta Memuru in Istanbul, the salary going from 200 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Ecnebiye Kalemi in Istanbul). In 1889/90 the record shows Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi in Istanbul, the salary going from 700 to 1,400 kuruş a month (before: Posta Memuru in Istanbul). In 1895/96 the record shows Vali Muavini in Erzurum, the salary going from 1,700 to 5,000 kuruş a month (before: Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi in Istanbul). In 1910/11 the record shows Vali in Cezairi bahri sefid, the salary going from 5,000 to 12,500 kuruş a month (before: Vali Muavini in Erzurum). In 1911 the record shows PT Naziri in Istanbul, the salary going from 12,500 to 15,000 kuruş a month (before: Vali in Cezairi bahri sefid). No annual entry is recorded for 1896 to 1910.
The highest salary, 15,000 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1911 as PT Naziri. 99 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 20 years with a salary the median is 600 kuruş a month, with 8 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 7,500 kuruş, is seen in 1910/11. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 13.21 per cent a year on average.
Honours recorded in the cross-ministry workbook: Rank (recorded code): 2, 1; Mecidi order (recorded code): 3.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- Birthplace
- Beirut (Beyrut)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Halep Rusum-i Sitte Naziri
Education
- Foreign school
- Saint Benuva (9 years)place of the school as worded: istanbul
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 3 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Middle
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Arabic
- kitabetwriting
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Greek
- tekellumspeaking
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First job as worded
- telgraf
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 16
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 250
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 250
Honours and ranks
- Rank (recorded code)
- 2; 1
- Mecidi order (recorded code)
- 3
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1877/78AH 1294 | telgraffirst work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250first-salary field |
| 1878 to 1881AH 1296 to 1298 | Ecnebiye Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250 to 200 |
| 1881 to 1889AH 1299 to 1306 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 to 700 |
| 1889 to 1895AH 1307 to 1312 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,400 to 1,700 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Vali Muavini | Erzurum | 5,000 |
| No annual entry: 1896 to 1910 (AH 1314 to 1327) | |||
| 1910/11AH 1328 | Vali | Cezairi bahri sefid | 12,500 |
| 1911AH 1329 | PT Naziri | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 15,000 |
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.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878/79 | 250 | 600 | 7% | |
| 1879/80 | 200 | 500 | 6% | |
| 1880/81 | 200 | 500 | 5% | |
| 1881/82 | 400 | 500 | 300 | 31% |
| 1882/83 | 400 | 500 | 356 | 28% |
| 1883/84 | 400 | 500 | 350 | 27% |
| 1884/85 | 400 | 500 | 325 | 27% |
| 1885/86 | 400 | 500 | 325 | 27% |
| 1886/87 | 500 | 500 | 325 | 42% |
| 1887/88 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 41% |
| 1888/89 | 700 | 500 | 380 | 72% |
| 1889/90 | 1,400 | 500 | 92% | |
| 1890/91 | 1,400 | 500 | 93% | |
| 1891/92 | 1,400 | 500 | 93% | |
| 1892/93 | 1,700 | 500 | 95% | |
| 1893/94 | 1,700 | 500 | 95% | |
| 1894/95 | 1,700 | 500 | 96% | |
| 1895/96 | 5,000 | 500 | 99% | |
| 1910/11 | 12,500 | 500 | 98% | |
| 1911 | 15,000 | 500 | 99% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Mustafa İsmet EfendiIstanbul, 18 shared years
- Bekir Zuhtu EfendiIstanbul, 17 shared years
- Mehmed Kâzım BeyIstanbul, 17 shared years
- Abdulkadir EfendiIstanbul, 17 shared years
- Ahmet Dilaver EfendiIstanbul, 17 shared years
983 officials in all. Officials recorded in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Same birthplace
- İskender EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), born 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- Kostantin Eminyan EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), born 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- İbrahim Hilmi EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), born 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Mehmet Tevfik EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), born 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Münip EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), born 1864/65 (AH 1281)
50 officials in all. Officials born in Beirut (Beyrut)
Full record
Annual entries (20)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Ecnebiye Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | Ecnebiye Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | Ecnebiye Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Posta Kalemi Mumeyyizligi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Vali Muavini | Erzurum | 5,000 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 5_129; 255 |
| 1910/11AH 1328 | Vali | Cezairi bahri sefid | 12,500 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 5_129; 255 |
| 1911AH 1329 | PT Naziri | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 15,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 5_129; 255 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (28)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | İbrahim Selim Susa Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1277 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | beyrut | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | Beyrut | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | Beyrut | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | Beyrut | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | beyrut | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | halep rusum-i sitte naziri | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Saint Benuva | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Place of the school | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 9 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 3 used on this page | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 other value | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1294 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1877 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | istanbul | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | telgraf | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 16 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 250 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 250 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Honours | ||
| Rank (recorded code) | 2 used on this page | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Rank (recorded code) | 1 other value | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Mecidi order (recorded code) | 3 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 17 annual entries of 20 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.