ALBANY — Seventy-four court administrative employees in Manhattan and Albany were fired yesterday as the state’s top judges scrambled to deal with a $170 million budget cut.

Another 400 or so employees working directly for individual courts, including court officers and stenographers, are expected to be dismissed next month, according to a top state judge.

“We have a $170 million hole in our budget,” said Court of Claims Judge Larry Marks, who serves as the court system’s administrative director.

Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman agreed earlier this year to cut his proposed $2.7 billion budget after Gov. Cuomo demanded that state spending be curtailed to deal with a projected $10 billion deficit.

Most of the laid-off personnel worked as computer programmers, data-entry clerks, secretaries and auditors in the Office of Court Administration’s central offices, Marks said.

The court system was trying to achieve savings by cutting nonpersonnel services expenditures, he said.