Mehmet Sadık Efendi

Mehmet Sadık Efendi was born in Adapazarı in 1867/68 (AH 1284). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Muderris.

Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded. 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 Adapazarı in 1881/82 (AH 1299). The official was then about 15 years old. The record gives 3 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 380 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1884/85, the official was about 17 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1884/85, shows Muhabere Memuru in Adapazarı, with 380 kuruş a month. In 1888/89 the record shows 3. Müdür in Karamürsel, the salary going from 380 to 540 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Adapazarı). In 1901/02 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in İzmit, the salary going from 540 to 440 kuruş a month (before: 3. Müdür in Karamürsel).

The highest salary, 540 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1888/89 as 3. Müdür. 55 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 20 years with a salary the median is 540 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and 1 cut. The largest rise, 160 kuruş, is seen in 1888/89. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 0.77 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1903/04, when 46 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.