JOSH PECK SPILLS: 'DRAKE AND JOSH' PAID WAY LESS THAN YOU'D THINK
The Nickelodeon star reveals he only pocketed around $500K total for four years and 60 episodes of the hit comedy.
Surprise, surprise — being a TV star doesn't always mean hitting the jackpot! Josh Peck just dropped some eye-opening intel on the "Financial Tea with Mrs. Dow Jones" podcast about his "Drake and Josh" paycheck, and fans are probably gonna do a double-take. According to Variety, the Nickelodeon legend revealed he took home roughly $500,000 total for the entire four-year run of the beloved sitcom, which breaks down to around $125,000 per year.
That might sound like serious cash to us regular folks, but for a hit show that aired 60 episodes and made Nickelodeon buckets of money? Peck's confession is a total reality check about how the network TV game actually worked back in the day. The cast apparently started out making even less when the show first launched, so those numbers crept up over time — but clearly not by much.
It's wild to think about how massive "Drake and Josh" was in pop culture, yet the stars who made it happen didn't exactly get rich off it. Peck's candid chat is giving us all the behind-the-scenes tea about who really cashes in from Hollywood hits!
Sources · Variety