Further Education (FE) lecturers across Northern Ireland are to receive a one-off £3,000 payment this month.
It comes as FE college employers said they are to implement the payment alongside one per cent rises for 2021/22 and 2022/23.
The move comes amid a long-running pay dispute between the college employers and FE unions.
Earlier this year, unions said FE lecturers had rejected what they called a "derisory" pay offer of one per cent.
But the employers have now reportedly said that negotiations with the unions are "exhausted" and that the one per cent rises and a one-off payment will be paid to lecturers in August.
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The BBC reported that the College Employers Forum (CEF) said they realised "this does not meet trade union's expectations on pay".
"However, throughout this process the CEF has endeavoured, despite the current landscape of public finances in Northern Ireland, to get the best possible sum of money, in whatever format, into the pockets of the lecturers," the CEF said.
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The employers added that the move had been made on pay to avoid losing £8 million in ring-fenced funding for the one-off payment.
The total cost of the pay deal is around £12.6 million.
The Department for the Economy (DfE), which is responsible for further education, said: "This business case was approved by the Department for the Economy, in line with Department of Finance pay remit approval process and guidance.
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"The department approved the non-consolidated payment on the basis that it was an element of, and not separate to, the overall pay settlement for 2021/22 and 2022/23."
The NASUWT's Justin McCamphill wrote on Twitter that the pay rise was "too little and far too late".
