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Job title

3. Sinif Teftis Memuru

Group of job titles: Police

13 officials held the job title 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru. Its 26 annual entries run from 1863 to 1879 (AH 1280 to 1296). The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries is 380 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The median entry paid 63 per cent of the collection median of its year. On average an official was paid more than 17 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 2 different years, and a quarter in 2 or more. It was the first title on record for 69 per cent of the officials and the last for 0 per cent. The title held just after it by most officials is Çavuş (5 officials). The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
13
Years on recordAH 1280 to 1296, 8 years with an entry
1863 to 1879
Median monthly salary0.63× the collection median of the same years (600 kuruş)
380 kuruş
Places with officials
1
First job title on recordfor 9 of the 13 officials
69%

Profile of the group: Police

No source read describes 3. 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 26 recorded monthly salaries is 380 kuruş, the mean 383 kuruş.
02004006001863/64AH 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 1296Median 380 kuruş in 1878/793. Sinif Teftis Memuru, median of years with 5 or more salariesMean of the same yearsWhole collectionFewer than 5 salaries, not joined to the line

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1863/641400400400400500
1864/651400400400400625
1866/672400400400400600
1875/761380380380380530
1876/771380380380380575
1877/784380380380380560
18788380380380380600
1878/798380379380380600

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
77%23%01002003004005007501,0001,5002,500

13 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 (77%) are in the band 300 to 400 kuruş.

The same numbers as a table
Officials of 3. 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 4001077%18%
400 to 500323%17%
500 to 75000%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 26 recorded monthly salaries of this job is 380 kuruş. In the same years the whole collection paid a median of 600 kuruş. The median entry paid 0.63× the collection median of its year, and the middle half of the entries between 0.63× and 0.67×. On average an official of this job was paid more than 17% of the other paid officials of the same year.

Times the collection median0.63×0.25×0.5×1×2×4×Share of paid officials earning less17%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 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from that title to 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru. The 2 titles with most officials, of 3 moves in all.

  1. 4. Sinif Teftis Memuru2
  2. Çavuşsergeant (a lower service grade)1

Held just after

The title of the entries just after a run of 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru to that title. The 4 titles with most officials, of 13 moves in all.

  1. Çavuşsergeant (a lower service grade)5pay -30 kuruş (-8%)
  2. 2. Sinif Teftis Memuru4
  3. 3. Sınıf Polis Komiseripolice commissioner, third class3
  4. Polispoliceman1

Of the 16 moves shown, 2 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
2 yearsmedian over 13 officials
A quarter of the officials
2 years or moreupper quartile
Most years of one official
4 years
  1. First job title on recordthe first year with an entry with a job title has it69%9 officials
  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 13 officials with a place recorded100%13 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

13 officials with it recorded.

  1. Muslim (Müslüman)100%13

Age at the first annual entry in the job

13 officials with it recorded.

  1. under 150%0
  2. 15 to 198%1
  3. 20 to 2446%6
  4. 25 to 2938%5
  5. 30 to 340%0
  6. 35 to 398%1
  7. 40 and over0%0

Province of birth

11 officials with it recorded.

  1. Istanbul (Dersaadet) province55%6
  2. Ankara province9%1
  3. Eastern Rumelia (Rumeli-i Şarkî) province9%1
  4. Erzurum province9%1
  5. Konya province9%1
  6. Sivas province9%1

Schooling

13 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. Primary54%7
  2. Rüşdiye38%5
  3. Higher or professional8%1

Languages

12 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

  1. Turkish100%12
  2. Arabic8%1
  3. Greek (Rum)8%1

Qualification

9 officials with it recorded. A diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan) recorded in the schooling or the work.

  1. No89%8
  2. Yes11%1

Source of the record

13 officials with it recorded.

  1. Post and Telegraph69%9
  2. Cross-ministry workbook31%4

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1878 (AH 1295) with 8 officials. Years with an annual entry: 8.
024681863/64AH 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 12968 in 1878Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1863/64 (AH 1280)111
1864/65 (AH 1281)101
1866/67 (AH 1283)222
1875/76 (AH 1292)111
1876/77 (AH 1293)101
1877/78 (AH 1294)434
1878 (AH 1295)848
1878/79 (AH 1296)828

An official is counted once in a year. First recorded is the first year in which the collection has an annual entry of the official on this page. It is not a hiring date.

Places

Places of 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province13261863 to 1879

Ottoman officials recorded

13 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of 3. Sinif Teftis Memuru
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hasan Bey1875 to 18784380Cerkezistan
Haci İsmail Hakki Efendi1877 to 18793380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Enver Efendi1877 to 18793380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Hamdi Efendi1877 to 18782380Kayseri
Bekir Zuhtu Efendi1878 to 18792380Nevşehir
Hasan Tahsin Efendi1863 to 18652400Kemah
İsmail Hakki Efendi1878 to 18792380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mahmut Cemal Efendi1878 to 18792380Divriği
Mehmet İhsan Efendi1878 to 18792380Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Dilaver Efendi1878/791380Sliven (İslimiye)
Hasan Rifat1866/671400Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Yekta Efendi1866/671400Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Safvet Efendi1878/791372Kirim

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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