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Mustafa Şevki Efendi

Born 1863/64 (AH 1280) · Dated entries 1883 to 1898 (AH 1301 to 1315)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD,d, 99/457

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 9 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.

Anamur
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Place not recorded

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.

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

  1. 1

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    İçel / İçel sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İçel; İçel sancağı

    1. İçel

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. İçel

      Muhasebe Kalemi Müdürü

      175 kuruşCalculated age 21

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    İçel sancağı / İçel

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İçel sancağı; İçel

    1. İçel sancağı

      muhasebe kalemi mukayyidi

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. İçel

      Muhasebe Kalemi Müdürü

      175 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 3 recorded years

    İçel

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İçel

    1. Muhasebe Kalemi Müdürü

      175 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muhasebe kalemi müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 25

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    İçel sancağı / İçel

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İçel sancağı; İçel

    1. İçel sancağı

      muhasebe mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. İçel

      Muhasebe kalemi mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

  6. 6

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 2 recorded years

    İçel

    AH entries: 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İçel

    1. Muhasebe kalemi mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Defter-i Hakani kalemi başkâtibi

      380 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    İçel sancağı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İçel sancağı

    1. defter-i hakani memuru vekili

      Calculated age 31

    2. defter-i hakani memuru vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 31

      Recorded service ending

  8. 8

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    İçel sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: İçel sancağı

    1. muhasebe kalemi mesalih-i cariye kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 33

  9. 9

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Anamur

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mal Müdürü Vekili

      Calculated age 35

    2. Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

3 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
1883/84 (AH 1301)175400150 to 1,40011.2%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)175400150 to 1,50011.3%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)175400150 to 1,50011.7%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)175400150 to 1,50011.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)175400150 to 1,50012.6%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)250400135 to 1,50021.7%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)250400130 to 1,50021.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)380400125 to 1,50043.9%1896
1895/96 (AH 1313)200400140 to 1,50014.9%1981
1897/98 (AH 1315)540400140 to 1,42566.5%1891

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. İçel8
    1883 to 1891 (AH 1301 to 1308)
  2. İçel sancağı5
    1883 to 1896 (AH 1301 to 1313)
  3. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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. İçel175 to 380
  2. İçel sancağı125 to 250

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. 1883 to 1888 (AH 1301 to 1305)
  2. 1888 to 1891 (AH 1306 to 1308)
  3. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
  4. 1890/91 (AH 1308)
  5. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  6. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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 Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye (bir müddet) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Silistreli devlet memurları

    KEMAL TERLEMEZ · 2026 · Pages 56, 57

    BOA, DH. SAİD,d, 99/457; 183 BOA, DH. SAİD,d, 99/457.; 184 BOA, DH. SAİD,d, 99/457.; 185 BOA, DH. SAİD,d, 99/457.; BOA, DH. SAİD,d, 99/457

  2. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Silifkeli devlet adamları

    FATİH ALTINTAŞ · 2023 · Pages 75, 76

Read the original source accounts · 23 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 20 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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