As unappealing as self-administered pay raises like those of the city councils in New York , Boston , Los Angeles and Washington might be , public advocates agree that they are far less troubling than the automatic kind enjoyed by Congress and by a small but growing number of local legislatures , like the one in King County , Wash. , which includes Seattle , where legislators who receive $ 110,000 annually recently adopted measures to guarantee themselves automatic 3 percent annual raises .