After his active-duty service, Bayley joined the United States Navy Reserve and served until 1985, retiring as a Captain (O-6).

In 1971, he led a grand jury investigation with Judge Stanley C. Soderland and attorney Evan Schwab into police payoffs.

In 1998, he ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate, losing to Linda Smith in the Republican primaries.

In 1985, he became President of Glacier Park Company (a real estate subsidiary of Burlington Northern Resources).

Clients include law firms, companies and individual who need help with environmental or political strategy before the Washington legislature or local governments Recent projects include sale of 50,000 acres in the Teanaway Valley to the state for environmental protection and passage of the Washington Law on International Arbitration in the 2015 legislative session .