As per my previous post, the median wage is the way to distinguish between the low wage and high wage categories. This is now true no matter what NOC category your on falls under. With that salary offered, you'd fall under the low-wage category, meaning your prospective employer would be under a cap on how many TFWs he can employ. The thing is he applied before the changes (so paid 275 and not 1000), so two things can happen: they'll either refund this and he'll have to apply again, paying the 1000 or they'll just process it anyway. Unfortunately I think the latter is less likely as they did announce all low wage applications before the changes will not be processed. It was just 5 days before the changes, so I wish you luck.