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Mehmet Rıfat 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

Born in Giresun, Mehmet Rıfat Efendi was the child of a finance director (mal müdürü). The annual lists begin in 1904/05 (AH 1322), with Mehmet Rıfat as Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi Muhabere Memuru and no place named.

The salary never rose above the first in the lists, 300 kuruş a month in 1904/05, when 29 per cent of paid officials earned less. The last annual entry is for 1905/06.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearyears with one job titleno annual entry
01002003001904/05AH 13221905/06AH 1323300 kuruşTelgraf ve Posta Merkezi Muhabere Memuru
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001904/05AH 13221905/06AH 1323This officialMedian, all officials

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 Rıfat Efendi against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1904/0530040029%
1905/0625043022%

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 Rıfat Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1904 to 1906AH 1322 to 1323Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi Muhabere Memuru
2 entries
YearSalary
1904/05300
1905/06250
300 to 250

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Giresun
Father's occupation
Mal Müdürü

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 birthplace

Of the 72 officials born in Giresun, 67 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Rıfat Efendi had the 40th highest salary of them.

The page of Giresun, with the 72 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 110 officials whose first annual entry is for 1904/05 (AH 1322), 99 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Rıfat Efendi had the 45th highest salary of them.

All 110 officials whose first annual entry is for 1904/05 (AH 1322)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Mehmet Rıfat Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1904/05AH 1322Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi Muhabere MemuruSuriye Vilayeti Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi300Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 148/427
1905/06AH 1323Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi Muhabere MemuruTrabzon Vilayeti Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi250Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 148/427
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 Rıfat 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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