In these situations, the highest posts reachable by the catamite retainers with 200 koku to less than 500 koku generally were the Kanjo ginmiyaku post, being just under the kanjo bugyo (commissioner of finance), whose officers checked accounts directly under the roju (senior councilor), or the hiroshiki-yonin post (officer responsible for general affairs in O-oku [the inner halls of the Edo-jo Castle], where one-fourth of the bakufu revenue was consumed, and was provided with accounting right there as well as the right to select suppliers to O-oku.
こうした中で200石以上、500石未満の旗本の場合は、老中直属の会計検査役で勘定奉行の次席格でもある勘定吟味役か、幕府収入の4分の1を消費した大奥の庶務責任者として出納の権限や出入り業者の選定権を持った広敷用人となるのが、一応の出世の到達点とされた。