Overview
- Peck told a recent podcast that the median pay was about $15,000 per episode, which he calculated as roughly $900,000 for the series run and that the cast “cleared half” after agents, managers and taxes.
- He said he began earning about $3,000 an episode on The Amanda Show before moving to Drake & Josh, which he described as about a four‑year run of roughly 60 episodes.
- Peck and former co-star Drake Bell have both said that many children's TV shows from that era paid little or no residuals, meaning reruns and streaming generated little extra income for cast members.
- Reporting links Peck’s pay disclosure to earlier coverage of Bell’s account of on‑set sexual abuse and subsequent criticism of how cast members responded, widening the discussion from contracts to child‑welfare and industry accountability.
- Small factual inconsistencies in episode counts appear across reports and critics say the revelations highlight how contract terms, fees and taxes can leave visible young stars with limited long‑term financial security, a point likely to revive calls for better protections and clearer pay structures for child actors.