The salarysport.com website say the on-loan Man United man is earning £28,000 per week, comfortably ahead of Jack Clarke on £15,000 a week.
If the figures are to be believed then Sunderland shell out £9,068,280 per year or £174,390 per week in player wages.
Here is how much the rest of the Black Cats best paid players are said to be pulling in.
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