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Job title

Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi

Group of job titles: Accounts and statistics

Stored spellings: Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyitligi

3 officials held the job title Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi. Its 32 annual entries run from 1873 to 1896 (AH 1290 to 1313). The median of the 32 recorded monthly salaries is 1,350 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
3
Years on recordAH 1290 to 1313, 24 years with an entry
1873 to 1896
Median monthly salaryfrom 32 recorded salaries
1,350 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Accounts and statistics

No source read describes Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi 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 32 recorded monthly salaries is 1,350 kuruş, the mean 1,341 kuruş.
05001,0001,5002,0002,5001873/74AH 12901875/76AH 12921877/78AH 12941878/79AH 12961880/81AH 12981882/83AH 13001884/85AH 13021886/87AH 13041888/89AH 13061890/91AH 13081892/93AH 13101894/95AH 13122,400 kuruş in 1895/96Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi, fewer than 5 salaries in every year

The same numbers as a table
Monthly salary each year in kuruş, Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi
YearRecorded salariesMedianMeanLower quartileUpper quartileMedian of the whole collection
1873/7411,0501,0501,0501,050500
1874/7511,2001,2001,2001,200535
1875/7611,2001,2001,2001,200530
1876/7711,5001,5001,5001,500575
1877/7811,5001,5001,5001,500560
187811,5001,5001,5001,500600
1878/7911,5001,5001,5001,500600
1879/801750750750750500
1880/811750750750750500
1881/821750750750750500
1882/831750750750750500
1883/841750750750750500
1884/8521,1251,125937.51,312.5500
1885/8621,1251,125937.51,312.5500
1886/8721,1251,125937.51,312.5500
1887/8821,1251,125937.51,312.5500
1888/8921,3251,3251,087.51,562.5500
1889/9021,4751,4751,212.51,737.5500
1890/9121,4751,4751,212.51,737.5500
1891/9221,4751,4751,212.51,737.5500
1892/9312,0002,0002,0002,000500
1893/9412,4002,4002,4002,400500
1894/9512,4002,4002,4002,400500
1895/9612,4002,4002,4002,400500

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 Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province3321873 to 1896

Ottoman officials recorded

3 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Muhasebe Kalemi Mukayyitligi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Tevfik Bey1879 to 189213750 to 950Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Karabet Efendi1884 to 1896121,500 to 2,400Edirne
Unnamed official (0007_0144; 285)1873 to 187971,050 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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