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Job title

Masarifat Baskitabeti

Group of job titles: Accounts and statistics

Stored spellings: Masarifat baskitabeti

2 officials held the job title Masarifat Baskitabeti. Its 23 annual entries run from 1892 to 1907 (AH 1310 to 1324). The median of the 23 recorded monthly salaries is 1,250 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
2
Years on recordAH 1310 to 1324, 15 years with an entry
1892 to 1907
Median monthly salaryfrom 23 recorded salaries
1,250 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Accounts and statistics

No source read describes Masarifat Baskitabeti 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 23 recorded monthly salaries is 1,250 kuruş, the mean 1,170 kuruş.
05001,0001,5001892/93AH 13101893/94AH 13111894/95AH 13121895/96AH 13131896/97AH 13141897/98AH 13151898/99AH 13161899/1900AH 13171900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241,300 kuruş in 1906/07Masarifat Baskitabeti, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Masarifat Baskitabeti
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1892/9311,1001,1001,1001,100500
1893/9411,1001,1001,1001,100500
1894/9511,2001,2001,2001,200500
1895/9611,3501,3501,3501,350500
1896/9711,2501,2501,2501,250500
1897/9811,2501,2501,2501,250500
1898/9921,0501,0509501,150500
1899/190021,0751,075962.51,187.5500
1900/0121,1501,1501,0751,225500
1901/0221,1501,1501,0751,225500
1902/0321,1501,1501,0751,225500
1903/0421,2001,2001,1501,250475
1904/0521,2001,2001,1501,250450
1905/0621,2001,2001,1501,250475
1906/0711,3001,3001,3001,300450

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 Masarifat Baskitabeti, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province2231892 to 1907

Ottoman officials recorded

2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Masarifat Baskitabeti
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi1892 to 1907151,100 to 1,350Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Cemal Efendi1898 to 19068850 to 1,100Istanbul (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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