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Job title

2. Sinif Teftis Memuru

Group of job titles: Police

5 officials held the job title 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru. Its 39 annual entries run from 1862 to 1879 (AH 1279 to 1296). The median of the 39 recorded monthly salaries is 570 kuruş, against 582.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The median entry paid 97 per cent of the collection median of its year. On average an official was paid more than 50 per cent of the other officials with a salary in the same year. Half of the officials have an entry in it in no more than 10 different years, and a quarter in 12 or more. It was the first title on record for 20 per cent of the officials and the last for 0 per cent. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
5
Years on recordAH 1279 to 1296, 16 years with an entry
1862 to 1879
Median monthly salary0.97× the collection median of the same years (582.5 kuruş)
570 kuruş
Places with officials
1
First job title on recordfor 1 of the 5 officials
20%

Profile of the group: Police

No source read describes 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the police (polis), which kept order in towns. A police organisation founded in 1845 was soon absorbed by the police command (Zaptiye Müşirliği) of 1846, and from 1881 a police force was set up permanently across the empire.

Requirements for entry

  • from 1889 a police course taught candidates some law besides reading and writing
  • a police school opened in Salonika in 1907, and others across the empire after 1909

History

From 1879 the Ministry of Police (Zaptiye Nezareti) dealt only with police work. In 1909 the ministry was abolished, and police work passed to the Directorate of Public Security (Emniyet-i Umumiye Müdüriyeti) under the Ministry of the Interior.

Sources

  1. Özcan, Abdülkadir (2013). Zaptiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 44, 128-130. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 128-130. Used for: summary, requirements for entry, history.
All years

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 39 recorded monthly salaries is 570 kuruş, the mean 561 kuruş.
02004006001862/63AH 12791863/64AH 12801864/65AH 12811865/66AH 12821866/67AH 12831867/68AH 12841868/69AH 12851869/70AH 12861870/71AH 12871871/72AH 12881872/73AH 12891873/74AH 12901874/75AH 12911875/76AH 12921876/77AH 12931877/78AH 12941878AH 12951878/79AH 1296570 kuruş in 1878/792. Sinif Teftis Memuru, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1862/631600600600600500
1863/641600600600600500
1864/651600600600600625
1865/662600600600600650
1866/672520520520520600
1867/683520536.67520545600
1868/693520536.67520545600
1869/703520536.67520545600
1870/713570563.33545585600
1871/724572.5566.25557.5581.25550
1872/734572.5566.25557.5581.25550
1873/744572.5566.25557.5581.25500
1874/753570555545572.5535
1875/762572.5572.5571.25573.75530
1876/772572.5572.5571.25573.75575
1878/791570570570570600

Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.

Pay against the whole collection

Officials by their median monthly salary in this job
Officials of this jobWhole collection
100%01002003004005007501,0001,5002,500

5 officials with a salary, each counted once in the band of the median of the official's salaries in this job. A bar runs from its number to the next; the last is 2,500 kuruş and more. Most officials (100%) are in the band 500 to 750 kuruş.

The same numbers as a table
Officials of 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru by median monthly salary
Median monthly salary, kuruşOfficialsShareWhole collection
0 to 10000%3%
100 to 20000%10%
200 to 30000%17%
300 to 40000%18%
400 to 50000%17%
500 to 7505100%23%
750 to 1,00000%5%
1,000 to 1,50000%4%
1,500 to 2,50000%2%
2,500 and more00%1%

The median of the 39 recorded monthly salaries of this job is 570 kuruş. In the same years the whole collection paid a median of 582.5 kuruş. The median entry paid 0.97× the collection median of its year, and the middle half of the entries between 0.92× and 1.07×. On average an official of this job was paid more than 50% of the other paid officials of the same year.

Times the collection median0.97×0.25×0.5×1×2×4×Share of paid officials earning less50%0%25%50%75%100%

The dot is the median, the box the middle half of the entries. Dashed lines: the collection median of the same years (1×) and the middle of the paid officials (50%).

Career paths: the titles just before and after

The number is the officials who made the move. Under it, the median change of the monthly salary: the first salary of the later title less the last salary of the earlier one, where at least 5 moves have both.

Held just before

The title of the entries just before a run of 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from that title to 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru.

  1. 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru4

Held just after

The title of the entries just after a run of 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru to that title. The 2 titles with most officials, of 5 moves in all.

  1. 1. Sinif Teftis Memuru4
  2. 3. Sınıf Polis Komiseripolice commissioner, third class1

Of the 9 moves shown, 1 cross at least one year without an annual entry; nothing is known about those years. Two posts held in the same years are not counted as a move.

Time in the job

Years with an entry in the job
10 yearsmedian over 5 officials
A quarter of the officials
12 years or moreupper quartile
Most years of one official
13 years
  1. First job title on recordthe first year with an entry with a job title has it20%1 official
  2. Last job title on recordthe last such year has it0%0 officials
  3. No other job titlein the whole record0%0 officials
  4. One place in the jobof 5 officials with a place recorded100%5 officials

Years are years with an annual entry in the job, each counted once for an official. They need not follow one another, and nothing is known about a year without an entry. With two posts in the first or last year, both count.

Who held the job

Officials of this jobWhole collection

Community

5 officials with it recorded.

  1. Muslim (Müslüman)100%5

Age at the first annual entry in the job

5 officials with it recorded.

  1. under 150%0
  2. 15 to 190%0
  3. 20 to 240%0
  4. 25 to 2960%3
  5. 30 to 3440%2
  6. 35 to 390%0
  7. 40 and over0%0

Schooling

5 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%. The groups of the schools recorded for each official.

  1. Primary80%4
  2. Rüşdiye20%1

Source of the record

5 officials with it recorded.

  1. Cross-ministry workbook80%4
  2. Post and Telegraph20%1

Places

Places of 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province5391862 to 1879

Ottoman officials recorded

5 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Sakir Bey1862 to 187513520 to 600Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hasan Tahsin Efendi1865 to 187712520 to 600Kemah
Mehmet Yekta Efendi1867 to 187710570Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hasan Rifat1871 to 18743600Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hasan Bey1878/791570Cerkezistan

Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

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