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We’re calling Josh Peck a truther.
The erstwhile Nickelodeon prima confessed he only made astir $900,000 aft moving connected nan deed sitcom “Drake & Josh” for 4 years.
Peck shared connected Thursday’s section of the “Financial Tea pinch Mrs. Dow Jones” podcast that he started disconnected making $3,000 per section on “The Amanda Show” from 2000 to 2002 earlier landing his ain gig connected “Drake & Josh” alongside Drake Bell, Miranda Cosgrove, Nancy Sullivan and Jonathan Goldstein successful 2004.
“And past by nan clip we finished ‘Drake & Josh’ — truthful that was 60 episodes full for nan full show —the median rate, nan mean complaint per section was astir $15,000. So complete 4 years, we coiled up making astir 900 grand,” he explained.
In 2006, Peck and Bell, 39, starred successful nan movie “Drake & Josh Go Hollywood,” earlier nan deed Nickelodeon bid wrapped successful 2007.
Peck emphasized that nan formed was “working truthful much,” but didn’t spot each of nan money they earned.
“We probably, betwixt agent, head and taxes, we cleared half of that,” he recalled.
Looking back, Peck knows he did rake successful a bully amount.
“We were making astir $125,000 a year. And group ever will say, ‘Well, compared to truthful galore different tougher jobs, for illustration who are you to opportunity anything?’ And I go, ‘I’m not,’” he clarified.
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However, nan money was nary wherever adjacent what fans assumed.
“The only logic I opportunity it is because group ever presume that it’s truthful overmuch much and why would you ever person to activity again? But of course, if you made nan net of a dentist aliases thing for illustration that, you couldn’t conscionable extremity moving aft 4 years.”
The “Grandfathered” alum besides felt nan unit aft becoming his family’s breadwinner, noting that erstwhile it’s “ingrained successful you” to ne'er spell backmost to being broke, you support going for “as agelong arsenic you can.”
“And I saw that successful myself forever,” Peck reflected, “just a heavy financial insecurity that drove everything I did.”
In 2022, Peck revealed that while he was connected nan show he and his mom “had a utilized BMW 5 series” while surviving successful a two-bedroom flat pinch amenities.
“We lived a very middle-class life,” he divulged connected nan “Trading Secrets” podcast astatine nan time.
He added that there’s “no residuals connected kids’ television.”
Bell echoed his co-star’s sentiments successful 2025, slamming nan thought nan each kid prima is raking successful nan dough.
“That’s nan cognition of nan world, it’s ever been this way,” he said while on “The Unplanned Podcast” at nan time. “It’s like, you know, ‘Oh, you made a Folgers Coffee commercial. You must unrecorded successful a mansion successful Hollywood. Like, I saw you connected TV. You’re rich.’”
“That’s acold from nan case,” Bell stated. “And especially, which is nan bummer for astir of america connected Nickelodeon, we don’t get residuals for our shows.”
