ALBANY – Court administrators are preparing to distribute four years worth of deferred raises to highly paid non-judicial employees at the same time they are scouring their budget for cuts that are expected to force hundreds of layoffs.

On April 27, lump-sum payments for retroactive raises will be made to unionized workers who are making more than $115,000 a year—1,740 of about 15,200 employees, according to Judge Lawrence K. Marks, administrative director of the court system.