Josh Peck is getting candid about how much money he earned after starring on Nickelodeon‘s Drake & Josh for four seasons.
During a recent interview on the Financial Tea with Mrs. Dow Jones podcast, the actor looked back at his early start in the industry as a child star and the financial impact it had on his family.
“I came from a lot of financial insecurity growing up,” he recalled. “I had a single mom, only child, and we sort of oscillated between being lower middle class and then being broke. But she worked in sales, so sometimes we’d have a great year and I was getting a new pair of Jordans, and then other times I’d be calling my grandma to help us pay for dinner because we had zero dollars.”
Peck scored his first recurring role in the early 2000s on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show at age 13, where he met Drake Bell, whom he would later star alongside on Drake & Josh. “We started out making $3,000 an episode on The Amanda Show,” he said.
He later landed the role of Josh Nichols on the teen sitcom, which ran for four seasons from 2004 to 2007. “By the time we finished Drake & Josh, so that was, like, 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,” Peck explained. The series consisted of 56 episodes, specifically, in addition to two TV movies.
