A method for ascertaining a correction value for fuel metering of a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, in which fuel is injected from a high-pressure accumulator into a combustion chamber with the aid of the fuel injector, the fuel being injected into the combustion chamber in multiple separate injection procedures during one work cycle, a value representative of a static flow rate through the fuel injector being ascertained by ascertaining, for at least one of the multiple separate injection procedures, a ratio of a pressure change caused in the high-pressure accumulator by the at least one of the multiple separate injection procedures and an associated duration characteristic for the at least one of the multiple separate injection procedures being ascertained, and the correction value being ascertained based on a comparison of the representative value to a comparison value.