Ali Şefik Efendi

Ali Şefik Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1854/55 (AH 1271). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Kolagasi.

Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1887/88 (AH 1305): Muallim. The official was then about 33 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 96 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1887/88, the official was about 33 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1887/88, shows Muallim in Üsküdar, with 96 kuruş a month. In 1893/94 the record shows Fabrika Memuru in Üsküdar, the salary going from 120 to 600 kuruş a month (before: Muallim in Üsküdar).

The highest salary, 640 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1899/1900 as Fabrika Memuru. 74 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 3 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 480 kuruş, is seen in 1893/94. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 10.5 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1906/07, when 69 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.

A death is recorded under 1907/08 (AH 1325): the year of the annual list that holds the status word Vefat, not a date of death.