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Ömer Said Bey

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

Born in Bursa in 1879/80 (AH 1297), Ömer Said Bey came from the İslam community. Ömer Said began work in 1897/98, at about 17. The annual lists begin in 1897/98, with Ömer Said as tahrîrat kalemi (mülazemet) and no place named.

Pay rose from 190 kuruş a month in 1899/1900 to a peak of 300 in 1901/02, when 29 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over three years the salaries add up to 8,880 kuruş, 61 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1901/02.

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. Bursa

    Born 1879/80 (AH 1297)

  2. Place not recorded

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    tahrîrat kalemi (mülazemet)

    entries in 1 year

  3. Place not recorded

    1899 to 1902 (AH 1317 to 1319)

    No annual entry for 1898/99 (AH 1316) before it.

    muvakkat müzâyede kâtibliği (ilâveten)

    190 to 300 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry01002003001897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 1319300 kuruştahrîrat kalemi (mülazemet)muvakkat müzâyede kâtibliği (ilâveten)
Salary against the medians of the same year
1002005001897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 1319This 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 Ömer Said Bey against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1899/190019040015%
1900/0125040021%
1901/0230040029%

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 Ömer Said Bey, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1897/98AH 1315First work
1897/98AH 1315tahrîrat kalemi (mülazemet)
No annual entry: 1898/99 (AH 1316)
1899 to 1902AH 1317 to 1319muvakkat müzâyede kâtibliği (ilâveten)
5 entries
YearSalary
1899/1900190
1900/01190
1900/01
1900/01250
1901/02300
190 to 300

Record

Personal

Born
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Birthplace
Bursa
Community
İslam

First work

Year
1897/98 (AH 1315)

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 302 officials born in Bursa, 286 have a recorded salary; Ömer Said Bey had the 217th highest salary of them.

The page of Bursa, with the 302 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315), 150 have a recorded salary; Ömer Said Bey had the 92nd highest salary of them.

All 163 officials whose first annual entry is for 1897/98 (AH 1315)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Ömer Said Bey
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1897/98AH 1315tahrîrat kalemi (mülazemet)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122/28; 55
1899/1900AH 1317muvakkat müzâyede kâtibliği (ilâveten)190Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122/28; 55
1900/01AH 1318muvakkat müzâyede kâtibliği (ilâveten)190Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122/28; 55
1900/01AH 1318kalem-i mezkûr mülâzımlığıAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122/28; 55
1900/01AH 1318tahrîrat mukayyidliği refâkati250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122/28; 55
1901/02AH 1319aşar mübeyyizliği300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records122/28; 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 Ömer Said Bey 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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