Job title

Başmüdür

Chief director

Başmüdür is the job title in 525 annual entries of 70 officials, from 1863 to 1912 (AH 1280 to 1330). The median of the 525 recorded monthly salaries is 2,700 kuruş. The entries name 35 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Ioannina (Yanya), with 12.

Officials: 70
Annual entries1863 to 1912, AH 1280 to 1330: 525
Year with most officials20 officials: 1881/82
Median monthly salaryfrom 525 recorded salaries: 2,700 kuruş
Places with officials: 35

Stored spellings: Basmudur; basmudur

All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1881/82 (AH 1299) with 20 officials. Years with an annual entry: 46.

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Officials on record each year, Başmüdür
Year	Officials on record	First recorded	Annual entries
1863/64 (AH 1280)	1	1	1
1864/65 (AH 1281)	1	0	1
1865/66 (AH 1282)	1	0	1
1866/67 (AH 1283)	1	0	1
1867/68 (AH 1284)	1	0	1
1868/69 (AH 1285)	1	0	1
1869/70 (AH 1286)	1	0	1
1870/71 (AH 1287)	1	0	1
1876/77 (AH 1293)	7	7	7
1877/78 (AH 1294)	13	7	13
1878 (AH 1295)	14	3	14
1878/79 (AH 1296)	15	2	15
1879/80 (AH 1297)	8	0	8
1880/81 (AH 1298)	12	2	12
1881/82 (AH 1299)	20	3	20
1882/83 (AH 1300)	20	3	20
1883/84 (AH 1301)	19	0	19
1884/85 (AH 1302)	18	0	18
1885/86 (AH 1303)	19	0	19
1886/87 (AH 1304)	18	3	18
1887/88 (AH 1305)	18	0	18
1888/89 (AH 1306)	18	3	18
1889/90 (AH 1307)	18	0	18
1890/91 (AH 1308)	18	1	18
1891/92 (AH 1309)	16	1	16
1892/93 (AH 1310)	14	4	14
1893/94 (AH 1311)	14	2	14
1894/95 (AH 1312)	15	2	15
1895/96 (AH 1313)	16	3	16
1896/97 (AH 1314)	16	1	16
1897/98 (AH 1315)	14	0	14
1898/99 (AH 1316)	16	2	16
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	17	1	17
1900/01 (AH 1318)	16	0	16
1901/02 (AH 1319)	17	2	17
1902/03 (AH 1320)	15	0	15
1903/04 (AH 1321)	15	3	15
1904/05 (AH 1322)	12	1	12
1905/06 (AH 1323)	10	1	10
1906/07 (AH 1324)	8	1	8
1907/08 (AH 1325)	4	0	4
1908/09 (AH 1326)	6	3	6
1909/10 (AH 1327)	6	3	6
1910/11 (AH 1328)	7	4	7
1911 (AH 1329)	5	0	5
1911/12 (AH 1330)	3	1	3

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.

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 525 recorded monthly salaries is 2,700 kuruş, the mean 2,787 kuruş.

The same numbers as a table

Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Başmüdür
Year	Recorded salaries	Median	Mean	Lower quartile	Upper quartile	Median of the whole collection
1863/64	1	3,375	3,375	3,375	3,375	500
1864/65	1	3,375	3,375	3,375	3,375	625
1865/66	1	3,375	3,375	3,375	3,375	650
1866/67	1	3,375	3,375	3,375	3,375	600
1867/68	1	3,375	3,375	3,375	3,375	600
1868/69	1	2,400	2,400	2,400	2,400	600
1869/70	1	2,400	2,400	2,400	2,400	600
1870/71	1	2,400	2,400	2,400	2,400	600
1876/77	7	3,000	2,928.57	2,500	3,000	575
1877/78	13	3,000	2,807.69	2,500	3,000	560
1878	14	3,000	3,107.14	2,625	3,000	600
1878/79	15	3,000	3,043.33	2,750	3,250	600
1879/80	8	2,200	2,512.5	2,000	3,050	500
1880/81	12	2,400	2,558.33	2,000	3,000	500
1881/82	20	2,400	2,445	2,000	2,650	500
1882/83	20	2,400	2,470	2,000	2,800	500
1883/84	19	2,400	2,452.63	2,000	2,700	500
1884/85	18	2,550	2,694.44	2,500	3,000	500
1885/86	19	3,000	2,805.26	2,550	3,000	500
1886/87	18	3,000	2,844.44	2,600	3,000	500
1887/88	18	3,000	2,872.22	2,650	3,000	500
1888/89	18	3,000	2,811.11	2,650	3,000	500
1889/90	18	3,000	2,883.33	2,850	3,000	500
1890/91	18	3,000	2,866.67	2,650	3,000	500
1891/92	16	3,000	2,903.12	2,500	3,000	500
1892/93	14	2,625	2,835.71	2,500	3,150	500
1893/94	14	2,625	2,785.71	2,500	3,000	500
1894/95	15	2,850	2,806.67	2,500	3,000	500
1895/96	16	2,825	2,778.12	2,500	3,000	500
1896/97	16	2,632.5	2,639.69	2,250	2,812.5	500
1897/98	14	2,632.5	2,659.64	2,312.5	2,737.5	500
1898/99	16	2,610	2,601.25	2,250	2,750	500
1899/1900	17	2,700	2,751.18	2,250	2,800	500
1900/01	16	2,610	2,766.88	2,437.5	2,812.5	500
1901/02	17	2,700	2,855.88	2,500	3,000	500
1902/03	15	2,700	2,803.33	2,375	2,875	500
1903/04	15	2,650	2,826	2,420	3,100	475
1904/05	12	2,700	2,929.17	2,437.5	3,062.5	450
1905/06	10	2,600	2,820	2,250	3,000	475
1906/07	8	2,650	2,843.75	2,400	3,000	450
1907/08	4	3,000	3,300	2,862.5	3,437.5	300
1908/09	6	2,750	3,033.33	2,500	3,000	350
1909/10	6	2,750	3,200	2,500	3,750	462.5
1910/11	7	2,500	2,921.43	2,500	2,750	500
1911	5	2,500	3,100	2,500	4,000	500
1911/12	3	2,500	3,000	2,500	3,250	900

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.

Places

Places of Başmüdür, the place with most officials first
Place	Province	Officials	Annual entries	Years
Ioannina (Yanya)	Ioannina (Yanya) province	12	34	1876 to 1912
Kastamonu	Kastamonu province	10	27	1881 to 1909
Tripoli (Trablusgarp)	Tripoli (Trablusgarp) province	9	25	1882 to 1911
Diyarbakır	Diyarbakır province	8	27	1868 to 1909
Istanbul (Dersaadet)	Istanbul (Dersaadet) province	7	25	1876 to 1910
Hicaz	Hejaz (Hicaz) province	7	21	1882 to 1911
Trabzon	Trabzon province	7	21	1877 to 1911
Thessaloniki (Selanik)	Thessaloniki (Selanik) province	6	34	1876 to 1910
Van	Van province	6	28	1882 to 1911
Aleppo (Halep)	Aleppo (Halep) province	6	25	1881 to 1911
Baghdad (Bağdat)	Baghdad (Bağdat) province	6	24	1878 to 1909
Yemen	Yemen province	6	22	1878 to 1912
Aydın	Aydın province	5	16	1882 to 1904
Hudavendigar	Hüdavendigâr province	4	30	1876 to 1906
Edirne	Edirne province	4	21	1877 to 1907
Konya	Konya province	4	17	1876 to 1911
Adana	Adana province	4	12	1892 to 1903
Beirut (Beyrut)	Beirut (Beyrut) province	4	12	1895 to 1910
Erzurum	Erzurum province	4	6	1898 to 1911
Kosova	Kosovo (Kosova) province	4	6	1877 to 1912
Suriye	Syria (Suriye) province	3	11	1876 to 1907
Sivas	Sivas province	3	8	1876 to 1903
Rumeli sarki	Eastern Rumelia (Rumeli-i Şarkî) province	2	9	1878 to 1886
Ankara	Ankara province	1	18	1883 to 1904
Beyoğlu	Istanbul (Dersaadet) province	1	14	1892 to 1906

Show the other 10 places

Places of Başmüdür, the place with most officials first, continued
Place	Province	Officials	Annual entries	Years
Damascus (Şam)	Syria (Suriye) province	1	14	1889 to 1903
Al-Faw (Fav)	Basra province	1	5	1863 to 1868
Bitola (Manastır)	Bitola (Manastır) province	1	3	1877 to 1879
Elazığ	Mamuretülaziz province	1	2	1878 to 1879
Hakkâri	Van province	1	2	1880 to 1882
Izmir (İzmir)	Aydın province	1	2	1878 to 1879
Misir	Egypt (Mısır) province	1	1	1890/91
Ruse (Rusçuk)	Danube (Tuna) province	1	1	1877/78
Shkodër (İşkodra)	Shkodër (İşkodra) province	1	1	1878
Yeni camii postanesi	Istanbul (Dersaadet) province	1	1	1888/89

Ottoman officials recorded

70 officials, the one with most annual entries first. The first 25 are shown, the others are under them.

Officials of Başmüdür
Official	Years	Annual entries	Kuruş a month	Birthplace
Bahattin Bey	1878 to 1904	24	2,400 to 3,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hasan Tahsin Efendi	1882 to 1903	21	2,400 to 3,000	Kemaliye (Eğin)
Hüseyin Hayrettin Efendi	1876 to 1892	17	2,000 to 3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İbrahim Kâmil Efendi	1877 to 1893	17	3,000 to 4,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mahmut Hilmi Efendi	1888 to 1905	17	2,000 to 3,000	Kemaliye (Eğin)
Osman Nureddin Efendi	1878 to 1895	17	2,000 to 3,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Emil Efendi	1876 to 1891	16	2,000 to 2,600	Aleppo (Halep)
Mehmet Şevket Efendi	1888 to 1905	16	2,250 to 4,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Rıza Efendi	1895 to 1910	15	2,250 to 4,750	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mahmut Bedri Efendi	1881 to 1895	14	2,000 to 3,500	Niš (Niş)
Abdülhalim Bey	1877 to 1892	12	2,400 to 3,500	Plovdiv (Filibe)
Abdülkerim Efendi	1876 to 1889	12	2,000 to 2,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Asaf Bey	1877 to 1892	12	2,000 to 3,000	Plovdiv (Filibe)
Ömer Hilmi Efendi	1892 to 1904	12	2,500 to 3,200	Ekin
Mahmut Efendi	1895 to 1906	11	2,250 to 2,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ömer Hilmi Efendi	1892 to 1903	11	2,500 to 3,000	Kemaliye (Eğin)
Yusuf Agâh Bey	1877 to 1891	11	2,400 to 3,000	Serres (Siroz)
Artin Aram Efendi	1881 to 1891	10	2,400 to 2,800	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Süleyman Fevzi Efendi	1878 to 1889	10	2,000 to 3,000	Gelibolu
Yusuf Efendi	1894 to 1904	10	2,250 to 2,500	Sofia (Sofya)
Ethem Efendi	1886 to 1897	9	3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hafız Nazif Efendi	1898 to 1907	9	2,250 to 4,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İsmail Hakkı Efendi	1893 to 1901	8	2,520 to 3,000	Tulcea (Tulça)
Mehmet Talat Efendi	1882 to 1890	8	2,400 to 3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Reşat Efendi	1886 to 1894	8	3,000 to 3,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)

Show the other 45 officials

Officials of Başmüdür, continued
Official	Years	Annual entries	Kuruş a month	Birthplace
Yusuf Agah Bey	1876 to 1883	8	3,000	Serres (Siroz)
Ahmet Efendi	1878 to 1886	7	2,000 to 3,000	Arapgir
Mustafa Efendi	1876 to 1882	7	2,000 to 4,500	Sivas
Abdürrahim Efendi	1892 to 1902	6	2,500	Sidon (Sayda)
Ahmet Cavit Bey	1878 to 1884	6	2,000 to 3,000	Plovdiv (Filibe)
Hacı Mehmet Tevfik Efendi	1895 to 1902	6	2,250 to 2,500	Karadeniz Ereğli
Hacı Ömer Efendi	1877 to 1882	6	2,500 to 3,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hafız Hilmi Efendi	1901 to 1907	6	2,600 to 2,700	Cerkezistan
İbrahim Agah Efendi	1888 to 1894	6	2,000 to 2,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ahmet Rüştü Efendi	1904 to 1909	5	3,000	Mudurnu
Antonoviç Efendi	1881 to 1885	4	2,400	Lehistan
Balyan Jozef Efendi	1882 to 1886	4	2,000 to 2,500	Ankara
Hacı Abdurrahim Muhsin Efendi	1908 to 1911	4	2,500	Siirt
Hızır Abbas Efendi	1903 to 1907	4	2,000 to 2,500	Beirut (Beyrut)
Hüsnü Efendi	1890 to 1896	4	2,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmed Şevket Bey	1880 to 1887	4	3,000	Safranbolu
Ali Galip Efendi	1909 to 1911	3	2,500	Harput
Aziz Mahmut Bey	1891 to 1894	3	2,250	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Bekir Efendi	1877 to 1879	3	3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İbrahim Edhem Efendi	1910 to 1912	3	3,000 to 4,000	Hersek
Mahmut Aziz Efendi	1880 to 1883	3	2,800	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Ziver Efendi	1910 to 1912	3	2,500	Stara Zagora (Eski Zağra)
Edmon Mone Efendi	1877 to 1886	2	2,500 to 2,600	Marsilya
Hüseyin Hilmi Bey	1898 to 1900	2	2,200	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Besim Efendi	1910 to 1911	2	4,000 to 5,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Nurettin Efendi	1896 to 1898	2	3,500	Tekirdağ
Mehmet Şakir Efendi	1903 to 1905	2	2,340 to 2,700	Siverek
Nikola Colini Efendi	1901 to 1903	2	2,700	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Yanko Makridi Efendi	1886 to 1888	2	3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Ali Rıza Efendi	1909/10	1	3,000	Nigbolu
Bekir Efendi	1906/07	1	2,700	Kirkuk (Kerkük)
Hacı Mehmet Ali Efendi	1905/06	1	2,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hasan Ferit Efendi	1909/10	1	4,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hüseyin Lebib Efendi	1876/77	1	3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İbrahim Ethem Efendi	1899/1900	1	2,800	Plovdiv (Filibe)
İbrahim Suphi Efendi	1903/04	1	2,750	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
İsmail Rahmi Efendi	1908/09	1	2,500	Bitola (Manastır)
Mazhar Tevfik Efendi	1911/12	1	2,500	Trikala (Tırhala)
Mehmed Şefik Efendi	1892/93	1	2,500	Sivas
Mehmet Asaf Efendi	1908/09	1	3,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mustafa Efendi	1876/77	1	4,000	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Neşet Efendi	1910/11	1	2,500	Mardin
Unnamed official (0002_0176; 350)	1863 to 1906	34	2,400 to 3,500	Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Unnamed official (26_188; 371)	1893 to 1911	18	2,250 to 2,500	Kilis
Unnamed official (0049_0034; 65)	1894 to 1908	14	2,250 to 3,000	Thessaloniki (Selanik)

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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