Grant as award and higher salary range

Hello everyone,

I’m currently preparing my Exceptional Talent visa application. I’m already based in the UK and have a registered startup here. The product is nearing its beta launch, and I’ve been accepted into two mini accelerators, one of which provided a £1,000 equity-free grant. Additionally, I’ve received a new software engineer job offer with a salary in the £50,000 range.

I’m wondering if the grant can be considered an award for the application and whether the £50,000 salary would qualify as a higher salary range.

Thanks!

Hi @mohamed_rimshadpcs you can provide a salary pay scale benchmarking from any platform from an entrepreneur in your region and prove it falls in the top %ile of salaries for this role.

The grant could be considered an award but not sufficient. I am assuming you want to use it for MC, Do you have more evidences for MC?

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@pahuja
Hi
Thanks for the reply,

I have recommendation letters from the CEO of an edtech company who has raised millions in funding and previously worked as a VC, backing companies that scaled to $100M in revenue.

Another letter is from my former manager, who is also the founder of the startup where I worked and previously an engineer at Apple .

Additionally, I have a letter from an early-stage founder with impressive traction and a senior engineer at a leading UK tech company.

I can also provide mentorship letters confirming that I’ve mentored individuals in the tech space.which I have done, apparently my publications in medium doesn’t count,

I have close to 100 contributions this year alone at GitHub, and 370 reputation in stackoverflow with 17k accounts reached, also presented the startup demo at some tech fest, and done little speaking at some events

Mentorship counts only if it’s part of a structured program with a program structure and selection. 1:1 mentorships or internal company mentorship’s don’t count

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The grant is not award. The award should be award if excellence in your field besides £1,000 is too small

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Hi @Francisca_Chiedu, thank you for your reply! Regarding the grant, the selection process was highly competitive—out of 500 startups, only 20 were chosen. Additionally, I have an award certificate from them as further recognition.

I also have another question. I recently received a job offer from a London-based tech company with a salary of £50K per annum. My previous salary for the same role in the same city was £35K. According to PayScale, the base salary for this role is £26K, and for someone with 1-4 years of experience, the range goes up to £36K. For professionals with 5-9 years of experience, the salary can go up to £56K. My CV reflects 5 years and 1 month of experience. I noticed similar figures on Glassdoor as well. Would you consider the £50K offer competitive for my experience level? i am planning for exceptional promise, i was wondering if this salary range consider as good?

It doesn’t matter if it is competitive but £1000 grant is small when compared to what other applicants have shown. I don’t know what dole you are talking About but 50k salary is fair but not super high. For exceptional promise it way suffice

Its a mobile app engineer role, and does prelaunch traction count for startup? 100+ on wait-list, and product has regular GitHub commit(public repo), screen recordings of product, landing page, registered in the UK.

also does credit grants from Github($5000), aws($1000), notion($6000), does these count? as award.

Thanks for the reply