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ŞAKİR EFENDİ

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 ŞAKİR EFENDİ began in Shkodër (İşkodra) in 1877/78 (AH 1294). Work began in Shkodër in 1893/94, at about 16. Every annual entry from 1893/94 to 1898/99 places ŞAKİR in the same post, Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımı, in Shkodër, the birthplace.

The salary went from 50 kuruş a month in 1895/96 to 110 in 1898/99, the peak, in Shkodër, when 6 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over four years the salaries add up to 4,020 kuruş, 20 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1898/99.

Career and salary

All years
Monthly salary by year, kuruşsalary of the yearsalary not recordedyears with one job titleno annual entry
0501001501893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 1316110 kuruşVilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımı
Salary against the medians of the same year
501002005001893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 1316This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same province

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 ŞAKİR EFENDİ against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titleMedian, same provincePaid less
1895/96504003001%
1896/97754503252%
1897/981004003504%
1898/991104003006%

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 ŞAKİR EFENDİ, one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1893/94AH 1311First workShkodër (İşkodra)
1893 to 1899AH 1311 to 1316Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımı
11 entries
YearSalary
1893/94
1894/95
1895/96
1895/96
1895/9650
1896/9750
1896/9775
1897/9875
1897/98100
1898/99100
1898/99110
Shkodër (İşkodra)110

Record

Personal

Born
1877/78 (AH 1294)

First work

Year
1893/94 (AH 1311)

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 64 officials with entries in Shkodër (İşkodra) in the same years, 63 have a recorded salary; ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 55th highest salary of them.

All 191 officials with entries in Shkodër (İşkodra)

Same birthplace

Of the 311 officials born in Shkodër (İşkodra), 200 have a recorded salary; ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 175th highest salary of them.

The page of Shkodër (İşkodra), with the 311 officials born there

First annual entry in the same year

Of the 196 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311), 178 have a recorded salary; ŞAKİR EFENDİ had the 171st highest salary of them.

All 196 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311)

Annual entries and original values

Annual entries of ŞAKİR EFENDİ
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1893/94AH 1311Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımıShkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1894/95AH 1312Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımıShkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1895/96AH 1313Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımıShkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1895/96AH 1313Vilayet Mektubî Kalemi mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)Shkodër (İşkodra)Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1895/96AH 1313Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1896/97AH 1314Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)50Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1896/97AH 1314Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1897/98AH 1315Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)75Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1897/98AH 1315Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1898/99AH 1316Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)100Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
1898/99AH 1316Meclis-i İdare-i Vilayet mübeyyiziShkodër (İşkodra)110Affiliation not recordedSelected canonical career recordsBOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92; 410 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 83/92, s. 181.
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 ŞAKİR EFENDİ 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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