Josh Peck, one of the former child stars of the teen sitcom Drake & Josh, has opened up about his financial history in a new interview.The actor, now 39 years old, fronted the popular Nickelodeon series from 2004 to 2007 alongside co-star Drake Bell.During an appearance on the Financial Tea with Mrs Dow Jones podcast this week, Peck revealed his total earnings on Drake & Josh – which started out as a spin-off of the sitcomThe Amanda Show.Josh Peck pictured in 2021 (Getty Images)“We started out making $3,000 an episode on The Amanda Show,” he said. “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.” However, due to costs including taxes and representation fees, he added that he and Bell ended up taking home substantially less. “We probably, between agent, manager and taxes,” he said, “cleared half of that.”Speaking about his time on Drake & Josh, he went into further detail about his finances, admitting that people “assume” he was getting paid more.“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,’” he continued. Bell and Peck together in 2006 (Getty Images)“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.”Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 dayNew subscribers only. £9.99/mo. after free trial. Plan auto-renews until cancelled.Try for freeADVERTISEMENT. If you sign up to this service we will earn commission. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 dayNew subscribers only. £9.99/mo. after free trial. Plan auto-renews until cancelled.Try for freeADVERTISEMENT. If you sign up to this service we will earn commission. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.This is not the first time that Peck has given an insight into his own earnings: previously, he claimed that he received no residual checks from the show, and was left needing to work just a year and a half after Drake & Josh came to an end.“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 said. “And I saw that in myself forever, just a deep financial insecurity that drove everything I did.”After Drake & Josh concluded, Peck and Bell reprised their odd-couple stepbrother characters in a number of other projects, including the TV movies Drake & Josh Go Hollywood (2006) and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008).