The highest minimum wage is $16.50/hour in Washington, D.C. A Christmas Carol mentions that Cratchit has seven family members: a wife and six children. Bob is the only one currently earning a wage ...

Bob Cratchit is Scrooge's clerk and works in unpleasant conditions without complaint. He obeys Scrooge's rules and is timid about asking to go home to his family early on Christmas Eve.

“It is important to note that Bob Cratchit was not destitute,” Brattin said in an email. “Rather, he was paid little, and had a large family – six children and a wife – to feed and clothe.

Bob Cratchit, the humble clerk in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, has been voted the most inspirational dad ever. The kindly underpaid clerk, who works for Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1843 novel ...