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Mehmet Hilmi Efendi

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Kargı · Dated entries 1866 to 1909 (AH 1283 to 1326)

Archival reference DH. SAID 2/19

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 11 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

Istanbul (Dersaadet)BurdurShkodër (İşkodra)Bitola (Manastır)Ioannina (Yanya)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Kargı

How to read this map

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.

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

  1. 1

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Kargı

    Not yet located on the map: Kargı

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Maliye İhale Kalemi memuru

      10 kuruşCalculated age 17

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Ticaret Meclisi Kalemi memuru

      120 kuruşCalculated age 20

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 4 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Taşra Menafi Sandıkları, ıslahhaneler ve Mekteb-i Sanayi hesap işleri yazıcısı

      Calculated age 26

    2. Taşra Menafi Sandıkları, ıslahhaneler ve Mekteb-i Sanayi hesap işleri yazıcısı

      800 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mekteb-i Sanayi muhasibi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 30

    2. Mekteb-i Sanayi muhasibi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Mekteb-i Sanayi muhasibi

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 42

  7. 7

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 4 recorded years

    Burdur

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    1. Sancak Muhasebecisi

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Sancak Muhasebecisi

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Teke

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Teke

    1. Sancak Muhasebecisi

      1,800 kuruşCalculated age 48

    2. Sancak Muhasebecisi

      1,620 kuruşCalculated age 48

  9. 9

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Shkodër (İşkodra)

    1. Defterdar

      3,420 kuruşCalculated age 54

  10. 10

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Bitola (Manastır)

    1. Vilayet defterdarı

      3,420 kuruşCalculated age 55

  11. 11

    1904/05 (AH 1322) · 5 recorded years

    Ioannina (Yanya)

    AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Vilayet defterdarı

      Calculated age 56

    2. Vilayet defterdarı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 60

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

5 entries 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

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

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.

View the yearly values
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
1866/67 (AH 1283)10400146 to 2,0001.5%399
1869/70 (AH 1286)120400150 to 2,2508.4%609
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,500450150 to 1,80086.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)800450150 to 2,00074.1%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)1,500400150 to 2,00084.5%1328
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,500400125 to 1,50088.6%1896
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,800400135 to 1,50092.1%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,800400140 to 1,40092.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,800400140 to 1,50092.5%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)1,800400140 to 1,50091.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)1,800450150 to 1,57591.4%2119
1902/03 (AH 1320)3,420400150 to 1,50097.5%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)3,420405150 to 1,45097.3%1578

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● 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. 1904 to 1909 (AH 1322 to 1326)
  2. 1892 to 1896 (AH 1310 to 1313)
  3. 1878 to 1891 (AH 1296 to 1308)
  4. 1903/04 (AH 1321)
  5. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
  6. Teke1
    1896/97 (AH 1314)

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. Burdur1,800
  2. Teke1,620 to 1,800

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. 1903 to 1909 (AH 1321 to 1326)
  2. 1892 to 1897 (AH 1310 to 1314)
  3. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1295)
  4. 1878 to 1891 (AH 1296 to 1308)
  5. 1902/03 (AH 1320)
  6. 1866/67 (AH 1283)

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

Schooling Darülmaarif [source]

Qualification Rika, sülüs ve nesih hatlarına hâkim; şahadetnamesi yok [1]

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Çorumlu devlet memurları (1879-1909)

    HAYRETTİN ÖRS · 2019 · Pages 59, 60, 61

    DH. SAID 2/19

Read the original source accounts · 30 source entries →

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 · 20 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 24 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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