United Kingdom, June 30 -- Josh Peck isn't paid residuals for Drake and Josh.

The 39-year-old actor rose to fame on Amanda Bynes' Nickelodeon sketch show The Amanda Show as a teenager in the early 2000s, before he and castmate Drake Bell were cast as stepbrothers in the sitcom.

Speaking on the Financial Tea with Mrs. Dow Jones podcast, he recalled: "We started out making $3,000 an episode on The Amanda Show."

He later explained that the money he earned for playing Josh Nichols for four seasons of Drake and Josh, from 2004 to 2007, wasn't as much as people would think.

He explained: "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 $1...