Maximizing Your Value: Key Factors for Director of Interconnection Salaries

A Director of Interconnection role pays between $200K and $230K base.
That's a $30K spread for the same title.

The bands are wide enough that where you sit inside them matters more than which band you're in.

Base comp for senior interconnection leaders in US power infrastructure has moved roughly 40% in two years. The headlines get the attention. The variance inside the bands gets ignored.

Sitting on the recruiting side, the more useful question is what puts a candidate at the top of their range versus the bottom. Four things, consistently.

Named queue wins. Specific projects steered from cluster study through energization, with the ISO and the cost allocation outcome on the record. Generic transmission experience pays mid-band. Closed queues pay top.

Multi-ISO fluency. Candidates who've executed in two or more of ERCOT, MISO, PJM, CAISO, SPP price higher than single-ISO specialists. Developers are expanding portfolios across regions and they want one hire, not three.

Affected system study experience. Few people have lived through one end to end. Demand is structural. It is the clearest premium signal in the data.

Counterpart-level relationships with utility transmission planning teams. Not vendor-level. Not "I've been on calls with them." Names, history, trust. This is the line between a manager who runs the process and a leader who can change the outcome.

Title and tenure don't move the number. Specifics do.

Building an interconnection function or evaluating where you sit in the range? Cameron Edwards is the person to talk to.

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