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Bob Cratchit

Fictional character in the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol

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Dec 16, 2025
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Claim: Bob Cratchit’s 15 shillings/week ≈ $14/hour today, higher than US federal minimum wage

Experts and fact-checkers find the simple claim — “Bob Cratchit’s 15 shillings/week ≈ $14/hour today, higher than US federal minimum wage” — is misleading because conversions depend on method and assu...

Dec 20, 2025
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Would a 15-shilling weekly wage in Charles Dickens's era meet contemporary US federal poverty and living-wage standards?

A simple conversion of Bob Cratchit’s 15 shillings a week into 2020s dollars yields wildly different answers depending on the method used, and none gives a clean yes/no answer to whether that wage wou...