Skip to content
Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Mehmed Nadir Efendi

Born 1882/83 (AH 1300) · Mecca (Mekke) · Dated entries 1909/10 (AH 1327)

Archival reference BOA. DH.SAĠD. d, nr. 182/156 s.156

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1909/10 (AH 1327): Vilayet meclis-i idare mukayyidi, Hicaz, 350 kuruşAH 1327
Places and reading notes
  • Hicaz

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

Follow 2 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.

1Mecca (Mekke)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Mecca (Mekke)

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.

1 stop kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Mecca (Mekke)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Hicaz

    Not yet located on the map: Hicaz

    1. Vilayet meclis-i idare mukayyidi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 27

3 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
1909/10 (AH 1327)350600200 to 2,00029.6%1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01753501909/10AH 13271909/10 (AH 1327) · 350 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. Hicaz1
    1909/10 (AH 1327)

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. Hicaz350

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. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane şahadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Aşiret Mektebi; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane [source]

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Mekke [source]
Birth province
Hicaz [source]
Birth year
1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]
Father’s occupation
Zebid kazası eski naibi [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH.SAĠD. d, nr. 182/156 s.156 [1]

Education and languages

Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane şahadetnamesi [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Aşiret Mektebi; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane [source]

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Hicaz [source]
First-salary field
350 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 206

    266 BOA. DH.SAĠD. d, nr. 182/156 s.156.

Read the original source accounts · 3 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 · 1 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 1 entry. 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

Subjects