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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

İsmail Efendi

Dated entries 1896 to 1912 (AH 1314 to 1330)

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 185/185

The career, year by year

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1Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Istanbul (Dersaadet) / İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

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Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

9 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

    2. İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

      Polis

      300 kuruş

  2. 2

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

    1. Polis

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  3. 3

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur / Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur; Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

    1. İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur

      Polis

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

      Polis

      300 kuruş

  4. 4

    1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 5 recorded years

    Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

    AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

    1. Polis

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Polis

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük; Location not recorded

    1. Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

      Polis

      300 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      askerlik (İnfisal)

  6. 6

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. askerlik (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  7. 7

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

    Not yet located on the map: Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

    1. Polis

      300 kuruş

  8. 8

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük; Location not recorded

    1. Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük

      Polis

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      üçüncü komiser

  9. 9

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Place not recorded / XXXIV. Bölük / Gebze

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; XXXIV. Bölük; Gebze

    1. Place not recorded

      üçüncü komiser

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gebze

      vekâleten savcı yardımcısı

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Gebze

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gebze

    1. vekâleten savcı yardımcısı

      Continuing service as described

    2. vekâleten savcı yardımcısı (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  11. 11

    1911/12 (AH 1330)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Polis Komiseri

      1,000 kuruş

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)300400140 to 1,50029.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)300400150 to 1,52029.0%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)300400150 to 1,50028.8%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)300405150 to 1,45029.0%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)300400135 to 1,50029.3%1493
1906/07 (AH 1324)300450150 to 1,52529.9%1371
1908/09 (AH 1326)350400150 to 2,00040.5%1232
1911/12 (AH 1330)1,0001,000300 to 3,00046.6%233

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük9
    1898 to 1908 (AH 1316 to 1325)
  2. İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur3
    1896 to 1899 (AH 1314 to 1316)
  3. Gebze2
    1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  4. 1911/12 (AH 1330)
  5. XXXIV. Bölük1
    1908/09 (AH 1326)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Üsküdar XXXV. Bölük300
  2. İstanbul XV. Bölük XIII. Tabur300
  3. XXXIV. Bölük350

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1896 to 1908 (AH 1314 to 1325)
  2. 1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326)
  3. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  4. 1908/09 (AH 1326)
  5. 1911/12 (AH 1330)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

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Sources and evidence

  1. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 50

    BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 185/185; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 185/185; 164 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 185/185.

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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 15 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 21 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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