A subscriber station (10; 30) for a serial bus system (1) and a method for communication in a serial bus system (1) are provided. The subscriber station (10, 30) has a communication control device (11, 31) for controlling communication of the subscriber station (10, 30) with at least one other subscriber station (10, 20, 30) of the bus system (1), and a transmitting/receiving device (12; 32), which is designed to transmit data to the communication control device (11; 31) to a bus (40) of the bus system (1), and which is designed to serially receive signals from the bus (40) of the bus system (1), the communication control device (11; 31) is designed to generate a transmission signal (TXD) in accordance with a frame (450) and to insert a header checksum (HCRC) into the frame (450), in which only bits of a frame header located prior to a data field (455) set for valid data in the frame (450) are included, 31) is designed in such a way that the communication control device (11; 31) is designed to use, for the calculation of the header checksum (HCRC), a predetermined start value (RS) and a predetermined checksum polynomial (CRCP), in which case the intermediate result of the calculation of the header checksum (HCRC) for the portion of the frame header in which the dynamic padding bits are used is not equal to a zero vector.