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Job title

Istatistik Basmemuru

Group of job titles: Accounts and statistics

Stored spellings: istatistik Basmemuru

4 officials held the job title Istatistik Basmemuru. Its 31 annual entries run from 1880 to 1900 (AH 1298 to 1317). The median of the 31 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Istanbul, with 3.

Officials
4
Years on recordAH 1298 to 1317, 20 years with an entry
1880 to 1900
Median monthly salaryfrom 31 recorded salaries
800 kuruş
Places with officials
2

Profile of the group: Accounts and statistics

No source read describes Istatistik Basmemuru by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Offices of accounts, collections and statistics. Ministries kept accountants (muhasebeci) among their central officials, as the regulation of 1879 for the Ministry of Justice and the gendarmerie regulation of 1903/04 for the Ministry of Police show.

Hard skillsinferred from the duties

  • bookkeeping (usûl-i defterî, defter tutma usulü), which the Mülkiye taught from 1859 and the rüşdiye from 1869

A field marked "inferred from the duties" is reasoned from the duties or the words of the group; the sources below do not state it.

Sources

  1. Akyıldız, Ali (2019). Mekteb-i Mülkiyye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, supplement vol. 2 (revised third printing), 238-240. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 238. Used for: hard skills.
  2. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. Used for: summary.
  3. 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.
  4. Öztürk, Cemil (2008). Rüşdiye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 35, 300-303. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 301. Used for: hard skills.
All years

Monthly salary each year

The median of the 31 recorded monthly salaries is 800 kuruş, the mean 857 kuruş.
02004006008001,0001880/81AH 12981881/82AH 12991882/83AH 13001883/84AH 13011884/85AH 13021885/86AH 13031886/87AH 13041887/88AH 13051888/89AH 13061889/90AH 13071890/91AH 13081891/92AH 13091892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 1317900 kuruş in 1899/1900Istatistik Basmemuru, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Istatistik Basmemuru
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1880/811800800800800500
1881/821800800800800500
1882/831800800800800500
1883/841800800800800500
1884/851800800800800500
1885/861800800800800500
1886/871800800800800500
1887/8841,0001,0008001,200500
1888/8941,0001,0758001,275500
1889/902800800800800500
1890/912800800800800500
1891/922800800800800500
1892/932800800800800500
1893/942800800800800500
1894/951800800800800500
1895/961800800800800500
1896/971720720720720500
1897/981720720720720500
1898/991720720720720500
1899/19001900900900900500

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 Istatistik Basmemuru, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province3181880 to 1894
Yeni camii postanesiIstanbul (Dersaadet) province1131887 to 1900

Ottoman officials recorded

4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Istatistik Basmemuru
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Mehmet Vecihi Bey1880 to 189414800Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Mehmet Faik Bey1887 to 190013720 to 900Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Hüseyin Besim Efendi1887 to 188921,200Kemah
Mehmet Salim Efendi1887 to 188921,200 to 1,500Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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