Job title
Muvakkat Memuru
Group of job titles: General office staff
Stored spellings: muvakkat memuru; Muvakkat Memuru
11 officials held the job title Muvakkat Memuru. Its 28 annual entries run from 1877 to 1911 (AH 1294 to 1329). The median of the 28 recorded monthly salaries is 325 kuruş, against 462.5 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The median entry paid 80 per cent of the collection median of its year. On average an official was paid more than 34 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 4 or more. It was the first title on record for 82 per cent of the officials and the last for 45 per cent. No other title is recorded for 45 per cent of them. The entries name 14 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Sidirokastro (Demirhisar), with 1.
- Officials
- 11
- Years on recordAH 1294 to 1329, 7 years with an entry
- 1877 to 1911
- Median monthly salary0.8× the collection median of the same years (462.5 kuruş)
- 325 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 14
- First job title on recordfor 9 of the 11 officials
- 82%
Profile of the group: General office staff
No source read describes Muvakkat Memuru by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
General titles of officials that name no particular office. In the offices of the nineteenth century a mülazım was a supernumerary or apprentice; in the Post and Telegraph service most officials began so and worked for years without a salary.
History
From 1879 a commission of the Ministry of the Interior (Sicill-i Ahval Komisyonu) recorded the careers of civil and judicial officials; it gathered about 92,000 records of service in 200 registers.
Sources
- Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 81-82. Used for: summary.
- The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Sections I and II. Used for: summary.
- İpşirli, Mehmet (1993). Dahiliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 8, 414-416. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 415. Used for: history.
Monthly salary each year
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| Year | Recorded salaries | Median | Mean | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Median of the whole collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1877/78 | 1 | 750 | 750 | 750 | 750 | 560 |
| 1893/94 | 1 | 750 | 750 | 750 | 750 | 500 |
| 1907/08 | 3 | 300 | 333.33 | 250 | 400 | 300 |
| 1908/09 | 8 | 300 | 287.5 | 237.5 | 300 | 350 |
| 1909/10 | 7 | 350 | 357.14 | 300 | 400 | 462.5 |
| 1910/11 | 5 | 350 | 380 | 300 | 400 | 500 |
| 1911 | 3 | 400 | 383.33 | 375 | 400 | 500 |
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
11 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 (36%) are in the band 300 to 400 kuruş.
The same numbers as a table
| Median monthly salary, kuruş | Officials | Share | Whole collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 100 | 0 | 0% | 3% |
| 100 to 200 | 0 | 0% | 10% |
| 200 to 300 | 2 | 18% | 17% |
| 300 to 400 | 4 | 36% | 18% |
| 400 to 500 | 2 | 18% | 17% |
| 500 to 750 | 1 | 9% | 23% |
| 750 to 1,000 | 2 | 18% | 5% |
| 1,000 to 1,500 | 0 | 0% | 4% |
| 1,500 to 2,500 | 0 | 0% | 2% |
| 2,500 and more | 0 | 0% | 1% |
The median of the 28 recorded monthly salaries of this job is 325 kuruş. In the same years the whole collection paid a median of 462.5 kuruş. The median entry paid 0.8× the collection median of its year, and the middle half of the entries between 0.66× and 0.9×. On average an official of this job was paid more than 34% of the other paid officials of the same year.
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%).
Where the job was held
| Place | Officials | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma) | 1 | |
| Damascus (Şam) | 1 | |
| Gjirokastër (Ergiri) | 1 | |
| Ioannina (Yanya) | 1 | |
| Izmir (İzmir) | 1 | |
| Jeddah (Cidde) | 1 | |
| Korçë (Görice) | 1 | |
| Medina (Medine) | 1 | |
| Sidirokastro (Demirhisar) | 1 | |
| Sinop | 1 |
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 Muvakkat Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from that title to Muvakkat Memuru. The 2 titles with most officials, of 2 moves in all.
Held just after
The title of the entries just after a run of Muvakkat Memuru. Pay: the change on moving from Muvakkat Memuru to that title. The 4 titles with most officials, of 6 moves in all.
Of the 8 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 11 officials
- A quarter of the officials
- 4 years or moreupper quartile
- Most years of one official
- 4 years
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
11 officials with it recorded.
Age at the first annual entry in the job
11 officials with it recorded.
Province of birth
11 officials with it recorded.
Schooling
11 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.
Languages
11 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Qualification
11 officials with it recorded. A diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan) recorded in the schooling or the work.
Officials on record each year
The same numbers as a table
| Year | Officials on record | First recorded | Annual entries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1877/78 (AH 1294) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1893/94 (AH 1311) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1907/08 (AH 1325) | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 1908/09 (AH 1326) | 8 | 5 | 8 |
| 1909/10 (AH 1327) | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| 1910/11 (AH 1328) | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1911 (AH 1329) | 3 | 0 | 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.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blagoevgrad (Yukarı Cuma) | Thessaloniki (Selanik) province | 1 | 4 | 1907 to 1911 |
| Korçë (Görice) | Bitola (Manastır) province | 1 | 4 | 1908 to 1911 |
| Sidirokastro (Demirhisar) | Thessaloniki (Selanik) province | 1 | 4 | 1908 to 1911 |
| Jeddah (Cidde) | Hejaz (Hicaz) province | 1 | 3 | 1907 to 1910 |
| Damascus (Şam) | Syria (Suriye) province | 1 | 2 | 1907 to 1909 |
| Ioannina (Yanya) | Ioannina (Yanya) province | 1 | 2 | 1909 to 1911 |
| Izmir (İzmir) | Aydın province | 1 | 2 | 1908 to 1910 |
| Gjirokastër (Ergiri) | Ioannina (Yanya) province | 1 | 1 | 1911 |
| Medina (Medine) | Hejaz (Hicaz) province | 1 | 1 | 1910/11 |
| Sinop | Kastamonu province | 1 | 1 | 1893/94 |
| Sliven (İslimiye) | Eastern Rumelia (Rumeli-i Şarkî) province | 1 | 1 | 1877/78 |
| Tepelenë (Tepedelen) | Ioannina (Yanya) province | 1 | 1 | 1908/09 |
| Thessaloniki (Selanik) | Thessaloniki (Selanik) province | 1 | 1 | 1909/10 |
| Van | Van province | 1 | 1 | 1908/09 |
Ottoman officials recorded
11 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hüseyin Şinasi Efendi | 1908 to 1911 | 4 | 250 to 350 | Gotse Delchev (Nevrekop) |
| İsmail Hakkı Efendi | 1908 to 1911 | 4 | 300 to 400 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Kâzım Efendi | 1908 to 1911 | 4 | 300 to 400 | Gjirokastër (Ergiri) |
| Mehmet İsmet Efendi | 1907 to 1911 | 4 | 200 to 250 | Berat |
| Mehmet Sadettin Efendi | 1907 to 1911 | 4 | 500 to 600 | Damascus (Şam) |
| Ahmet Naci Efendi | 1907 to 1909 | 2 | 300 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Süleyman Efendi | 1908 to 1910 | 2 | 150 to 300 | Izmir (İzmir) |
| Haydar Efendi | 1908/09 | 1 | 300 | Van |
| İbrahim Ethem Efendi | 1893/94 | 1 | 750 | Edirne |
| Mehmet Pertev Efendi | 1877/78 | 1 | 750 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Muhyiddin Nuri Efendi | 1909/10 | 1 | 400 | Gotse Delchev (Nevrekop) |
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.
Subjects
- Muvakkat Memuru
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)