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MUSTAFA SUBHİ EFENDİ

Born 1883/84 (AH 1301) · Varna · Dated entries 1905 to 1908 (AH 1323 to 1325)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 145/47

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1905/06 (AH 1323): Bidâyet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi, Gürün, 300 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324): Bidâyet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi, Gürün, 300 kuruş1907/08 (AH 1325): Bidâyet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi, Gürün, 300 kuruş1907/08 (AH 1325): İstifa, place unspecified1907/08 (AH 1325): Humus Arâzî-i Seniyye İdaresi Muharrem Şubesi kâtibi, Muharrem Şubesi, 400 kuruşAH 1323AH 1325
Places and reading notes
  • Gürün
  • Muharrem Şubesi

3 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Varna

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.

  1. 1

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Varna

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Gürün

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Bidâyet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

  3. 3

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Gürün

    1. Bidâyet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Gürün / Place not recorded / Muharrem Şubesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Muharrem Şubesi

    1. Gürün

      Bidâyet Mahkemesi zabıt kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 24

    3. Muharrem Şubesi

      Humus Arâzî-i Seniyye İdaresi Muharrem Şubesi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 24

2 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
1905/06 (AH 1323)300430125 to 1,50029.3%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)300450150 to 1,52529.9%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)400460135 to 1,61540.8%1290

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001905/06AH 13231907/08AH 13251905/06 (AH 1323) · 300 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · 300 kuruş1907/08 (AH 1325) · 300 kuruş1907/08 (AH 1325) · 400 kuruş

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. 1905 to 1908 (AH 1323 to 1325)
  2. Muharrem Şubesi1
    1907/08 (AH 1325)

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. Muharrem Şubesi400

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. 1905 to 1908 (AH 1323 to 1325)
  2. 1907/08 (AH 1325)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Askerî Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi; Mülkî İdâdî tasdiknamesi [1]

Schooling Şam-ı Şerif İbtidâî Mektebi; Askerî Rüşdiye; Mülkî İdâdî [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Varna [source]
Birth year
1883/84 (AH 1301) [source]
Father’s occupation
Şam Hamidiye Muhacir Mahallesi muhtarı [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİDd., 145/47 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Askerî Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi; Mülkî İdâdî tasdiknamesi [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Şam-ı Şerif İbtidâî Mektebi; Askerî Rüşdiye; Mülkî İdâdî [source]
Education level equivalent
9 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
22 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Gürün [source]
First-salary field
300 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1905/06 (AH 1323) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Varnalı devlet adamları

    İSA ÖZHAN · 2024 · Pages 185, 186

    314 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 145/47.

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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 · 3 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 5 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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