Job title
Rusumat Veznedari
Group of job titles: Customs
1 official held the job title Rusumat Veznedari. Its 26 annual entries run from 1858 to 1883 (AH 1275 to 1300). The median of the 26 recorded monthly salaries is 812.5 kuruş, against 550 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1275 to 1300, 26 years with an entry
- 1858 to 1883
- Median monthly salaryfrom 26 recorded salaries
- 812.5 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Customs
No source read describes Rusumat Veznedari by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Officials of the customs. From 1860 the customs were run by salaried officials instead of tax farmers, and from 1870 by the Customs Administration (Rüsumat Emaneti) in Istanbul with seventeen directorates in the provinces and inspectors to check the work.
History
A regulation of 1891 set the procedures of the customs: hours, loading and unloading, transit, inspection, ships' manifests and bonded stores.
Sources
- Kütükoğlu, Mübahat S. (1996). Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 14, 263-268. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 263-268. Used for: summary, history.
Monthly salary each year
The same numbers as a table
| Year | Recorded salaries | Median | Mean | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Median of the whole collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1858/59 | 1 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 500 |
| 1859/60 | 1 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 500 |
| 1860/61 | 1 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 500 |
| 1861/62 | 1 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 600 |
| 1862/63 | 1 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 450 | 500 |
| 1863/64 | 1 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 |
| 1864/65 | 1 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 625 |
| 1865/66 | 1 | 700 | 700 | 700 | 700 | 650 |
| 1866/67 | 1 | 630 | 630 | 630 | 630 | 600 |
| 1867/68 | 1 | 683 | 683 | 683 | 683 | 600 |
| 1868/69 | 1 | 683 | 683 | 683 | 683 | 600 |
| 1869/70 | 1 | 683 | 683 | 683 | 683 | 600 |
| 1870/71 | 1 | 875 | 875 | 875 | 875 | 600 |
| 1871/72 | 1 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 550 |
| 1872/73 | 1 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 550 |
| 1873/74 | 1 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 500 |
| 1874/75 | 1 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 535 |
| 1875/76 | 1 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 825 | 530 |
| 1876/77 | 1 | 900 | 900 | 900 | 900 | 575 |
| 1877/78 | 1 | 900 | 900 | 900 | 900 | 560 |
| 1878 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 600 |
| 1878/79 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 600 |
| 1879/80 | 1 | 800 | 800 | 800 | 800 | 500 |
| 1880/81 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| 1881/82 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 500 |
| 1882/83 | 1 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 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.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 26 | 1858 to 1883 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehmet Ali Efendi | 1858 to 1883 | 26 | 450 to 1,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Rusumat Veznedari
- 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)