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Mehmed Şefik 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

Mehmed Şefik Efendi was born in Gelibolu. The annual lists begin in 1904/05 (AH 1322), with Mehmed Şefik as askerlik (Görevin sona ermesi) and no place named. For 1905 to 1907 the lists have no entry.

The one salary in the lists is 200 kuruş a month, for 1907/08, when 16 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1907/08.

Places in order of time

Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.

  1. Place not recorded

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    askerlik (Görevin sona ermesi)

    entries in 1 year

  2. Place not recorded

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    No annual entry for 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324) before it.

    telgraf memuru (mülazemet) (Görevin sona ermesi)

    entries in 1 year

  3. Gelibolu Telgrafhanesi as worded, no place record

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Telgraf Memuru

    200 kuruş a month; entries in 1 year

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
no entry0501001502001904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 1325200 kuruşaskerlik (Görevin sona ermesi)Telgraf Memuru

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 Mehmed Şefik Efendi, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1904/05AH 1322askerlik (Görevin sona ermesi)
No annual entry: 1905 to 1907 (AH 1323 to 1324)
1907/08AH 1325telgraf memuru (mülazemet) (Görevin sona ermesi)
1907/08AH 1325Telgraf Memuru200

Record

Personal

Birthplace
Gelibolu

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 127 officials born in Gelibolu, 118 have a recorded salary; Mehmed Şefik Efendi had the 106th highest salary of them.

The page of Gelibolu, with the 127 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; Mehmed Şefik Efendi had the 71st 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 Mehmed Şefik Efendi
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1904/05AH 1322askerlik (Görevin sona ermesi)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 147/271
1907/08AH 1325telgraf memuru (mülazemet) (Görevin sona ermesi)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 147/271
1907/08AH 1325Telgraf MemuruGelibolu Telgrafhanesi200Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 147/271
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 Mehmed Şefik 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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