Officials first recorded in 1877/78 (AH 1294)

In 1877/78 (AH 1294) the collection records 1,210 officials; for 118 of them it is the first annual entry. The first annual entry is not the year of hiring: the personnel record gives the year of first work in a separate field. For 87 of the 118 that year is earlier. See How to read the records.

The first entries are in 62 places; Istanbul (Dersaadet) has 20 of them, Ruse (Rusçuk) 7 and Erzurum 6. The most frequent job titles are Muhabere Memuru (82), Memur (6) and Muhasebe Kalemi (6). The median salary in 1877/78 was 400 kuruş a month, over the 118 with a salary that year.

The table lists them by highest monthly salary, the rank the personal pages give under “Recorded with”. Equal salaries share a rank.