Robbie Farah will be close to being the highest-paid player in the game next year after the Wests Tigers agreed to foot $750,000 of his salary in 2017.

After giving Farah little option but to leave the club he helped guide to a premiership in 2005, the Tigers will fork out a huge chunk of Farah's $950,000 contract for next year.

Topped up with what he stands to earn when he officially joins the Rabbitohs, Farah will rival the likes of Gold Coast's Jarryd Hayne in the NRL's most remunerated players after an end to his ugly fallout with coach Jason Taylor.

Farah stands to collect in the region of $1.2 million given the Rabbitohs' contribution, but is still privately gutted he will not see out his career as a one-club player.