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Mehmet Durak 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

The life of Mehmet Durak Efendi began in Kars. Mehmet Durak began work in Bayburt in 1882/83 (AH 1300), on a first salary of 75 kuruş. From the first annual entry, for 1882/83, to 1903/04, every annual entry places Mehmet Durak in the same post, Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak Mukayyidi, in Bayburt. Fewer than 5 per cent of the 2,755 officials whose entries span 20 years or more stayed in one place throughout.

Pay rose from 75 kuruş a month in 1882/83 to a peak of 250 in 1894/95, in Bayburt, when 21 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, 18 years of salary come to 38,400 kuruş, 44 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1903/04.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entryno entry01002003001882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 1320250 kuruşNüfus Kâtibi
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13121896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 1320This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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 Mehmet Durak Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1882/83754003003%
1883/84754003313%
1884/85754004003%
1885/8675400312.53%
1886/87754003003%
1887/88754003463%
1890/911254003608%
1892/931254005008%
1894/9525040040021%
1895/9625040050020%
1896/9725045050018%
1897/9825040040020%
1898/9925040050020%
1899/190025040050021%
1900/0125040040021%
1901/0225040045021%
1902/0325040030021%
1903/0425040550022%

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 Mehmet Durak Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1882/83AH 1300First workBayburt75first-salary field
1882 to 1888AH 1300 to 1305Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak Mukayyidi
7 entries
YearSalary
1882/8375
1883/8475
1884/8575
1885/8675
1886/8775
1887/8875
1887/88
Bayburt75
No annual entry: 1888 to 1890 (AH 1306 to 1307)
1890/91AH 1308Bidayet Mahkemesi İkinci Kâtibi (vekâleten)
2 entries
YearSalary
1890/91125
1890/91
Bayburt125
No annual entry: 1891/92 (AH 1309)
1892 to 1904AH 1310 to 1321Nüfus Kâtibi
16 entries
YearSalary
1892/93125
1893/94
1894/95
1894/95250
1895/96250
1895/96
1895/96250
1896/97250
1897/98250
1898/99250
1899/1900250
1900/01250
1901/02250
1902/03250
1903/04250
1903/04
Bayburt125

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Kars

First work

Year
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Place
Bayburt

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 place, same years

Of the 16 officials with entries in Bayburt in the same years, Mehmet Durak Efendi had the lowest salary.

All 25 officials with entries in Bayburt

Same birthplace

Of the 193 officials born in Kars, 113 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Durak Efendi had the 94th highest salary of them.

The page of Kars, with the 193 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 237 officials whose first annual entry is for 1882/83 (AH 1300), 208 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Durak Efendi had the 169th highest salary of them.

All 237 officials whose first annual entry is for 1882/83 (AH 1300)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Durak Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1882/83AH 1300Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak MukayyidiBayburt75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1883/84AH 1301Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak MukayyidiBayburt75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1884/85AH 1302Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak MukayyidiBayburt75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1885/86AH 1303Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak MukayyidiBayburt75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1886/87AH 1304Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak MukayyidiBayburt75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1887/88AH 1305Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak MukayyidiBayburt75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1887/88AH 1305Muhasebe Kalemi Mesalih-i Cariye Evrak Mukayyidi (İnfisal)BayburtAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1890/91AH 1308Bidayet Mahkemesi İkinci Kâtibi (vekâleten)Bayburt125Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1890/91AH 1308Bidayet Mahkemesi İkinci Kâtibi (vekâleten) (İnfisal)BayburtAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1892/93AH 1310Nüfus KâtibiBayburt125Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1893/94AH 1311Nüfus KâtibiBayburtAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1894/95AH 1312Nüfus KâtibiBayburtAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1894/95AH 1312Nüfus KâtibiBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1895/96AH 1313Nüfus KâtibiBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1895/96AH 1313Nüfus Kâtibi (Nakil)BayburtAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1895/96AH 1313Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1896/97AH 1314Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1897/98AH 1315Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1898/99AH 1316Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1899/1900AH 1317Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1900/01AH 1318Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1901/02AH 1319Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1902/03AH 1320Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1903/04AH 1321Nüfus MemuruBayburt250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
1903/04AH 1321Nüfus Memuru (Azil)BayburtAffiliation not recordedSelected canonical career records73 BOA. DH.d. SAĠD. No: 166/433.
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 Mehmet Durak 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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