Josh Peck Reveals How Much He Actually Made on Drake & Josh

Josh Peck Reveals How Much Money He Actually Made on Drake & Josh, The Amanda Show

You can call Josh Peck a truther.

Why? Because the 39-year-old is getting candid with how much he made as a child star on shows like The Amanda Show and Drake & Josh. And he knows it may be surprising to some people.

“We started out making $3,000 an episode on The Amanda Show,” Peck—who appeared on the Nickelodeon series from 2000 to 2002—shared on the June 25 episode of the Financial Tea with Mrs. Dow Jones podcast. “And then by the time we finished Drake & Josh—so that was 60 episodes total for the whole show—the median rate, the average rate per episode was about $15,000. So over four years, we wound up making about 900 grand.”

But while he and his fellow castmates, which included star Amanda Bynes and Drake Bell, were “working so much,” Peck emphasized that they didn’t actually take home all of that money.

“We probably, between agent, manager and taxes,” he said, "we cleared half of that.”

When Peck broke down his take-home pay over the nearly four years he worked on Drake & Josh, which aired from January 2004 to September 2007, he found that he still made good money, although it wasn’t life-changing.

“We were making about $125,000 a year. And people always will say, ‘Well, compared to so many other tougher jobs, like who are you to say anything?’ And I go, ‘I’m not,’” Peck continued. “The only reason I say it is because people always assume that it’s so much more and why would you ever have to work again? But of course, if you made the salary of a dentist or something like that, you couldn’t just stop working after four years."

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And following years of financial insecurity in his early years, the Oppenheimer actor revealed the pressure he faced after becoming a breadwinner for his family. After all, Peck previously shared that he didn’t receive residual checks and only had 18 months of runway saved up once Drake & Josh wrapped.

“If you have it ingrained in you that you never want to be broke again, you will run like your pants are on fire for as long as you can and I have,” he concluded. “And I saw that in myself forever, just a deep financial insecurity that drove everything I did.”

And Peck isn’t the only one getting real about money. Keep reading to see more surprising Hollywood paychecks…

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