‘The Young and the Restless” star Eric Braeden is livid after quitting the show in a salary dispute.

Braeden, one of daytime’s biggest stars, stormed off “Y&R” after refusing to have his salary cut.

“If I signed a three-year f***ing deal, you honor it!” Braeden told The Post yesterday.

The 68-year-old actor, who’s played arch-cad Victor Newman on the CBS soap since 1980, says he took a voluntary pay cut two years ago.

But producers CBS and Sony invoked a little-used clause giving them the right to review his salary every 26 weeks (and the right to cut that salary). “You expect to be talked to in a sensitive way, not suddenly hit over the head by invoking a clause that was never invoked before and to say ‘What the f*** happened?’ ,” Braeden says.

He adds that there’s a certain “hierarchy” among daytime soap stars, which he feels should have spared him from a salary cut.

“Let’s call a spade a spade. Management always gives the impression that all [soap] actors are the same, but it’s bulls**t to claim that. They aren’t,” he says.

Braeden could still return to “Y&R” if a new deal can be worked out. His last scene, taped Sept. 23, airs Nov. 2.

“To be honest, I honestly can’t answer succinctly. I really don’t know,” he says of a possible return. “I just don’t know. All offers are open and on the table.

Officials at CBS and Sony declined to comment.