Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid)

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

The life of Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid) began in Gelibolu. Salih Rıfkı (Seyyid) began work in Gelibolu in 1866/67 (AH 1283), on a first salary of 280 kuruş. From the first annual entry, for 1866/67, to 1880/81, every annual entry places Salih Rıfkı (Seyyid) in the same post, Tahrir-i Emlak İdaresi memuru, in Gelibolu, the birthplace. The lists give Vefat (death) for 1887/88 instead of a title.

The salary went from 280 kuruş a month in 1866/67 to 385 in 1868/69, the peak, in Gelibolu, when 40 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, three years of salary come to 10,980 kuruş, 71 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1887/88.

Key numbers

Lifetime earnings3 years with a salary; 72 per cent of the pay of an official on the median salary: 10,980 kuruş
Pay standingof the officials paid in the same years, mean of 3 years: Bottom 31%
Pay standing locallyof those paid in Edirne province, mean of 3 years: Bottom 25%
Average salarya month (3,660 a year); median 280: 305 kuruş
Highest salarya month, in 1868/69: 385 kuruş
Years on record1866 to 1888, 4 with an entry: 23
Placesof the annual entries; 0 job titles held: 1
First salary in the annual listsa month, in 1866/67: 280 kuruş
Salary growth a year1 rise, 1 cut: -0.8%
Salary at first worka month, first-salary field of the record: 280 kuruş
Standing of the last salaryof the officials paid in 1880/81: Above 20%

Salaries are nominal monthly kuruş of the recorded years only; nothing is known about a year without an annual entry.

Career and salary

All years

Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry

Salary against the medians of the same year

Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary, and the median of the same province for the years in which at least 5 officials were paid in the province of the official's salary that year.

The numbers of the chart

Salary of Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid) against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
Year	Salary	Median, all officials	Median, same province	Paid less
1866/67	280	400	400	31%
1868/69	385	475	408	40%
1880/81	250	400	475	20%

Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.

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 Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid), one row per stage
Years	Title	Place	Salary (kuruş a month)
1866/67AH 1283	First work	Gelibolu	280first-salary field
1866/67AH 1283	Tahrir-i Emlak İdaresi memuru	Gelibolu	280
No annual entry: 1867/68 (AH 1284)
1868/69AH 1285	Vergi Kâtibi	Gelibolu	385
No annual entry: 1869 to 1880 (AH 1286 to 1297)
1880/81AH 1298	Vergi Kâtibi	Gelibolu	250
No annual entry: 1881 to 1887 (AH 1299 to 1304)
1887/88AH 1305	Vefatdeath (a note on status, not a job)

Record

Personal

Birthplace: Gelibolu

First work

Year: 1866/67 (AH 1283)
Place: 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 place, same years

Of the 14 officials with entries in Gelibolu in the same years, Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid) had the 13th highest salary.

Salih Nazif Efendi (Seyyid)3 shared years; highest salary 700 kuruş
Mehmed İzzet Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 650 kuruş
Kosti Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 800 kuruş
Hasan Şevket Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 700 kuruş
Mehmed Fehim Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş

All 84 officials with entries in Gelibolu

Same birthplace

Of the 127 officials born in Gelibolu, 118 have a recorded salary; Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid) had the 75th highest salary of them.

İsmail Hakkı İsmet Efendiborn 1818/19 (AH 1234); highest salary 4,000 kuruş
Abdullah Necib Efendiborn 1819/20 (AH 1235); no salary recorded
Mehmed İzzet Efendiborn 1833/34 (AH 1249); highest salary 650 kuruş
Aristidi Efendiborn 1845/46 (AH 1262); highest salary 600 kuruş
İsmail Hakkı Efendiborn 1845/46 (AH 1262); highest salary 2,500 kuruş

The page of Gelibolu, with the 127 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 96 officials whose first annual entry is for 1866/67 (AH 1283), 81 have a recorded salary; Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid) had the 78th highest salary of them.

Karabet Ağafirst entry in Gelibolu; highest salary 300 kuruş
Mehmed Fehim Efendifirst entry in Gelibolu; highest salary 600 kuruş
Salih Nazif Efendi (Seyyid)first entry in Gelibolu; highest salary 700 kuruş
Çerkeşşeyhîzâde Seyyid Mehmed Tevfik Efendifirst entry in Cairo (Kahire); no salary recorded
Ahmed Bican Efendifirst annual entry 1866/67 (AH 1283); no salary recorded

All 96 officials whose first annual entry is for 1866/67 (AH 1283)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid)
Year	Title	Place	Kuruş a month	Institution	Source	Archive reference
1866/67AH 1283	Tahrir-i Emlak İdaresi memuru	Gelibolu	280	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 15/473
1868/69AH 1285	Vergi Kâtibi	Gelibolu	385	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 15/473
1880/81AH 1298	Vergi Kâtibi	Gelibolu	250	Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 15/473
1887/88AH 1305	Vefat			Affiliation not recorded	Selected canonical career records	BOA, DH.SAİD.d, Nr: 15/473

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 Salih Rıfkı Efendi (Seyyid) with their sources
Field	Recorded value	Source