Şakir Efendi

Şakir Efendi was born in Lovech (Lofça) in 1871/72 (AH 1288). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.

Schooling recorded: Darüşşafaka, with 12 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. 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 1889/90 (AH 1307). The official was then about 18 years old. The record gives 3 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 120 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1892/93, the official was about 21 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1892/93, shows Pul Kitabeti in Istanbul, with 120 kuruş a month.

The highest salary, 400 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1904/05 as Pul Kitabeti. 38 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 450 kuruş. Over 14 years with a salary the median is 260 kuruş a month, with 5 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 80 kuruş, is seen in 1899/1900. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 9.7 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1905/06, when 38 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.