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Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

İsmail Hakkı Efendi

Born 1850/51 (AH 1267) · Bursa · Dated entries 1867 to 1902 (AH 1284 to 1319)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 6/273; 541

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 4 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.

1Bursa
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Bursa

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.

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

  1. 1

    1850/51 (AH 1267)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Hüdâvendigâr

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hüdâvendigâr

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. mektubcu kalemi (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bursa mizan-ı harir müzâyede kitâbeti

      200 kuruşCalculated age 18

    2. Infisal

      Calculated age 18

  4. 4

    1874/75 (AH 1291) · 29 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. rüsûmat emâneti evrak odası

      140 kuruşCalculated age 24

    2. rüsûmat emâneti evrak odası

      510 kuruşCalculated age 52

    All 41 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1868/69 (AH 1285)200475150 to 3,00013.7%505
1874/75 (AH 1291)170450150 to 1,80012.3%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)200450150 to 2,00015.1%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)200420150 to 2,00015.3%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)200450150 to 1,80015.3%1160
1878 (AH 1295)250450150 to 2,00023.4%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)250400150 to 2,00021.4%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)250400180 to 1,80019.2%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)200400160 to 1,50012.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)200400150 to 1,50013.4%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)300400150 to 1,40027.9%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)300400150 to 1,40028.3%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)300400150 to 1,50028.2%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)300400150 to 1,50027.9%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)325400150 to 1,50039.4%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)400400150 to 1,50043.8%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)400400135 to 1,50045.6%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)400400130 to 1,50046.2%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)400400125 to 1,50045.4%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)420400140 to 1,60053.1%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)420400135 to 1,50052.6%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)420400140 to 1,40052.0%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)450400140 to 1,50052.4%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)450400140 to 1,50052.5%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)450450150 to 1,57549.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)450400140 to 1,42553.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)450400144 to 1,40052.0%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)450400140 to 1,44052.4%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)500400140 to 1,50055.5%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)510400150 to 1,52061.7%1666

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. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  2. Hüdâvendigâr1
    1867/68 (AH 1284)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1874 to 1902 (AH 1291 to 1319)
  2. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  3. 1868/69 (AH 1285)
  4. 1867/68 (AH 1284)

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 Mekteb-i Sıbyan; mahal-i mezbur mekteb-i rüşdiyesi [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)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 199,200

    6/273; 541

Read the original source accounts · 44 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 · 31 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 44 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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