İsmail Safa Efendi

İsmail Safa Efendi was born in Mecca (Mekke) in 1866/67 (AH 1283). 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 a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.

First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1886/87 (AH 1304): Evkaf Kalemi. The official was then about 20 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 100 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1886/87, the official was about 20 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1886/87, shows Muhasebe Kalemi in Istanbul, with 100 kuruş a month. In 1887/88 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul, the salary going from 100 to 150 kuruş a month (before: Muhasebe Kalemi in Istanbul). In 1889/90 the record shows Musevvit Kalemi in Istanbul, the salary going from 400 to 450 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul).

The highest salary, 800 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1899/1900 as Musevvit Kalemi. 83 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 14 years with a salary the median is 500 kuruş a month, with 7 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 250 kuruş, is seen in 1888/89. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 17.35 per cent a year on average.